PRESENTIMENTS
Such as the sun might present—out of sight—
I need to see the Unseen Face again
the one I can imagine, piece by piece.
I’m talking about divinity, of course.
I need to enter where I’ve never been.
What else is new, my soul asked from the tree
where it had taken on the mockingbird
breaking the dawn down, splinters I could hear,
notes too high, too low, ordinary days.
The face is there, open your hand right now,
the bird kept singing me, in broken notes,
and then it made me speak, in these poor words:
the face returns my stare, oh, just reflection,
stars, stars I find along my street each day,
clogged, festering across the gutter trap.
By the same author
RODIN, “Hand with Small Torso, Bronze” | Rodin’s “The Cathedral”
In Paris you can see his drawer of hands.