Saturday, July 8, 2023

Listening to Hildegard

 

Life has depth & dice, glimmer by rain, cirrus into mantic energy;

Confused by spirits, soul filled with yearnings, redeemed at points, sacrificed at an apex.

Heaving those years, disrupted focus, cacti inhabitation.

            Oh aberrant sacrifice, wailing for change, to shift into necessity.

Reason as a slave, logic as her ruling, fortified, not quite clear how to stay perfect through words.

            Magnified inside, precious sanctity inside, by arc to describe its projection.

            To adore substance of hopes, evidence of unseen, miracle of sacrifice.

Slow deterioration—darkness into illumination, passed a neighboring label.

            Oh meditative clemency, through deeper voyage, a soul is held together by his journey.

            Too effused, poured into, gripping papyrus, marveling over scripture—its dynamism, its metaphor, if to approach it as literature;

Dreams as they appear, vision as it unlatches, linchpins strengthened.

If following her voice, in understanding her fervor, it seems apparent a falling apart—a magnificent losing.

            By grace, silenced into benighted, accursed unto praise—to suffer is to draw nearness: theology & reach.

            Exulting reality, as approached by chasm, indebted to Hume’s ideal of reason.

            An unspoken loudness, a vocal silence, a revealing concealment—as swamp walkers, nibbling waterweeds, nudging a Levite.

            Leviathan would appear, a tiger with heads would emerge, souls were immersed in otherness, channeled by sky-texture:

            Dearest of pages, New & Old internality, to sing as sung, most delivered of wildness, essence unraveled,

            Cosmos affected.

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