Sweet Unsecreted Light Terrestrial Celestial Flooding My Eyes Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

sweet, unsecreted light terrestrial celestial flooding my eyes
the eyes of my eyes the heart of the heart and glancing off
small rain printed puddles as easily as you may from
ocean swells and the cream curve of the wave called devastation
the tremulous tremendous Ark of what is left to us
you do not hide from us the glory of God yet men will say so
and dart like bats into the lower depths
pretending the lid of the coffin is the sky
I will not deny, deny, deny
your dazzling enterpriseless enterprise
your emerald gleam in the shade
of all my days made and unmade your fugues;
infinitude I send this valentine to you
this white gold valentine seeped in clouds
the rainbow dissolve and the slow fade
in the rain weeping over the barren fields
where men have forgotten to sing to you to Him who made you
shine
to yield to you forsaking instead the paradiso for the inferno
and where in golden fortitude at times
you break down,
emblematic, witness of God.
mary angela douglas 9 july 2021