Recovering Awe
She said, ‘When God spoke forth those words
So early in our time, did his lips move – or
More, like mother’s breast, express himself
With wondrous physicality we now
Can feel and taste and see – it all
A word or thought from that
Eternal mind which started
All in attitude of kind?’My lenses show me wide and far and close
Through separate vistas of a world sublime –
With digits now set free to capture
Endlessly the great expansiveness of
That celestial instigating mind.One pane of frost, of all the windows in the house
And all the houses on our block – and
So on to the world – I see a world
So large I cannot gasp the fullness
Of the beauty held ephemeral in
Those crystals till the strengthening sun of spring
Will turn that world to tiny drops of spray.I turn to dirt and hear his voice exclaim as glass
Increased his view, ‘have dirt you ever seen?!’
Have dirt I ever seen? Why yes, far more than
’Ere I wanted, but, ‘lets take a look, show
Me what you have now just seen – so
We can walk together into
Beauty and a world expressed
To us in kindness long ago.navigation