A Poem For Sunday

"Five Psalms" by Mark Jarman:

Let us think of God as a lover

       Who never calls,

Whose pleasure in us is aroused

       In unrepeatable ways,

God as a body we cannot

       Separate from desire,

Saying to us, “Your love

       Is only physical.”

Let us think of God as a bronze

       With green skin

Or a plane that draws the eye close

       To the texture of paint.

Let us think of God as life,

       A bacillus or virus,

As death, an igneous rock

       In a quartz garden.

Then, let us think of kissing

       God with the kisses

Of our mouths, of lying with God,

       As sea worms lie,

Snugly petrifying

       In their coral shirts.

Let us think of ourselves

       As part of God,

Neither alive nor dead,

       But like Alpha, Omega,

Glyphs and hieroglyphs,

       Numbers, data.

The full poem can be found here.

(Image by Isaac Cordal with more images and information here)