Wednesday, November 29, 2006

New Year's Eve - 1999

New Year’s Eve - 1999
(for Maggie with admiration)

You reach into the closet
and I feel the old anxiety—
so mythic a dimension:

a place of disappearances
where Jews and true natures hide.

a place where skeletons
and disordered affections are kept.

the place Jesus wants us to enter
and pray more earnestly.

You reach into asymmetry
and bring out a winter coat
that will warmly embrace you.

1 comment:

timdonaldson said...

The black hole thing is interesting. Black holes are so heavy that nothing can ever escape... and yet, if the Big Bang is so, everything once did.