1.
Reveal thyself, reveal thyself
but I am the one
from whom God's face
remains hidden.
2.
In every field
I searched
and into the woods
and cried,
Where are the pink rimmed eyes
of that white faced cow?
3.
By night
with fever
I dreamed a dream full of longing
and I know God came to me
and lay with me and when he turned to me
he had the face of Brando.
4.
God thought
an emissary, cool Death,
a clean shaven man in a suit,
patient at my computer while I slept
would do.
5.
I read:
to the Australian reporter
the Vietnamese said
the soldiers knew what day
they would die, the day the Woman visited:
"Death she is a lady."
6.
Grace is bestowed
and there is immortality of the soul.
At the home of my friends, the So brothers,
I see for the first time another visitor, their mother,
and I bow to her sweet countenance
and she hurries over to embrace me.
This poem was first published in The Green Mountains Review and later in the anthology Illness & Grace, Terror & Transformation, Wising Up Press :
http://www.universaltable.org/library/illnessgrace.html
Reveal thyself, reveal thyself
but I am the one
from whom God's face
remains hidden.
2.
In every field
I searched
and into the woods
and cried,
Where are the pink rimmed eyes
of that white faced cow?
3.
By night
with fever
I dreamed a dream full of longing
and I know God came to me
and lay with me and when he turned to me
he had the face of Brando.
4.
God thought
an emissary, cool Death,
a clean shaven man in a suit,
patient at my computer while I slept
would do.
5.
I read:
to the Australian reporter
the Vietnamese said
the soldiers knew what day
they would die, the day the Woman visited:
"Death she is a lady."
6.
Grace is bestowed
and there is immortality of the soul.
At the home of my friends, the So brothers,
I see for the first time another visitor, their mother,
and I bow to her sweet countenance
and she hurries over to embrace me.
This poem was first published in The Green Mountains Review and later in the anthology Illness & Grace, Terror & Transformation, Wising Up Press :
http://www.universaltable.org/library/illnessgrace.html