(DI)VISION

From "Song of Names"

He sees God
(so to speak)
in the celestial
dance of sun/moon/stars,
God’s touch in the bodies
of beasts/fowl/fish,
God’s image echoed
in the gait of each
man/woman/child
walking down
the dirt roads
from Vermont to
Palmyra.

But it’s not
until he feels
the weight of
the world of mankind,
not until the ancient gears of
division/wickedness/darkness
grind him that he comes
to the grove
begging—

—for a way
to heal the broken
links between us.

Not until after
he almost drowns
in the darkness that

He sees God

and asks what
nexus exists where
he and you and I
will find each other.

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Originally published in Song of Names