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The Whirlwind Review Issue 1 Table of Contents Nonfiction Previous Phillip K. Arrington
A Poetics for GodHelp me say this.I cannot do it without you, curious clay, a breath of thought. This is the first lesson. It shakes a lion's head. It cannot be tamed or caged. Take this much as wonder of any life left to speak, to say these mountains will not move or glow unless we say they shall. Without your poems I could not pray. Without your poems I could not deny the prayers. I take you by the hand, pull your mouth close to my blazed face. I want you to pronounce the name you have not heard. to hear all it does not say. I say the holiest word will never be said, has never been said. I will say it here. When you understand it, you will know how little it means, how much it matters. I will say it here. I will. I am. |
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