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Listen again: indescribable beyond. in doubt. trumpet,
exchange, those make my darkness. speak give
sometime out of entangled saw it vision : can:
And them clouds, writes Hildegard, one as in sound.
one, reforming, nor unassisted, vessels... one fragile
unshaping, whose shape didn’t always sing, taught
the elements roaming vision are but God’s to satanic I.

 

Therefore returns bird to angel vessels, makes fragile evil,
light us might Listen to for God does it not write, devils?
Wrote back and forth breathes forth for devil works.
like Another eggshell alternation between
light and darkness mysteries spaces between good
but between whichare Ach! works. I saw

 

inwardly, divine long witnessed the infinite breath
became // Another in difference ecstasy, said, sound again:
what but angels so. Music so. music, mystic know : You
when the complete are grey, turning pigeons, And Then
into empty passages intertwined mind is Clouds

 

Those and God’s passes between, clause, or
Woe! between boom are she and they which turning make

 


Whose soul were words

 

// a call, doorway, brightness, strength.

 

a moist greenness sacred

 

through entreat your mixed

 

greenness, through own

 

into vigour and the like to sound,

 

 

 

 

all the indifferent, all that is

 

of you woman, all by

 

When wonderful raise

 

the wrought God, the by Father,

 

fall by and by of mystery,

 

your flesh so long is things

 

 

 


by as though And so

 

I entreat you: Father, you

 

of power a green took passive

 

of pass And moist Word,

 

imagination as the not rhetorical correspondent,

 

 

 

 

In the world by breaking

 

which simultaneity May, She

 

from soul to metaphors

 

forth until heart

 

sacred intoxicating: and

 

creation honeycomb! Sweet

 

 

 

 

sound simultaneity: body, a Word

 

seek swirl sensation, fire.

 

with stone: the thing

 

by these concludes palpable

 

and was Truth, resounds,

 

Word honey upon red-burning things

 

 

 

 

her starry God there. know

 

sweet letter limbs.

 

with Spirit enchantment

 

through an angel fall

 

upon your heart

wyrd[bird

by Claire Marie Stancek

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Claire Marie Stancek is the author of two poetry books: MOUTHS (Noemi, 2017), and most recently, Oil Spell (Omnidawn, 2018). She is co-editor and co-founder of Nion Editions, a small press devoted to publishing chapbooks. She lives in Berkeley, CA.

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