Turning, Tossing
TURNING, TOSSING
If ecstasy, never yet of the taken up
variety. Visions limited to lightning
bugs, September sky, a heavenly host
of other sights available to most. Tongues,
sure, but strictly of colloquial kind.
There was one time I prophesied,
but I must confess it more of a guess.
The Apostle put it best: to some this, some
that, flecks of divine razzle-dazzle
sprinkling down like heaven's dandruff
to settle on unsuspecting sleeves. And then
to some of us none of these, with—oh jeez—
a keen awareness of the dearth:
can't quite find heaven, can't quite love earth.
If it's a gift, this stubborn stupor
in which we slog, we'll know it only
when the fog lifts from the surface
of more than the cow pond and we rise
to sip of waking's sweet relief, a coming-to
all the sweeter given a while longer yet
of faithful thrashing in these tangled sheets.
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