Sacred and unutterable Mind
flashing thorough the universe one thought,
- John Berryman
Let me tell you how it happened:
My foregoing thoughts of you: did we have to be all those? I cannot let go of this loveliness, all blurry and countless, unlike
the wondering I had done: oh, let me, let me ask, where? Where
are/ you/ are you
(in) the things I had seen you in: streets and highways, titles in bookshops, random twilights, a handful of rainy days, this solitary tree,
the accidental skein of prayers: let me ask you one final question, or be, or here, my love, here--
converged into one dazzling, lushly flickering light.
And you, beloved, were, one enunciated night, licked by the sudden warmth of a far-reaching flame. From the immeasurable--because, with time, turned into something unseen--distance, you crossed the rift between before and after. And by crossing, you sealed the hollow, drawn as you were by the brilliance: a known strangeness, yes? Beckoned, you came.
Summoned, you arrived.
And here is the afterglow: you and I,
here.
