Luminescence
...dedicated to Hart Crane (1899-1932)
From dark to light transfusing in a flash,
your silver-sequined mystery
that breathes new electricity,
it shines where none has shone before,
this trembling luminescence,
through waves refracted with your sheen
yet shows no movement readily,
no broken sea reveals your rippled hand.
Layer on layer endlessly,
the waves preclude all semblance of your face,
and roll, so indeterminate their swell,
that light cannot quite penetrate the gloom;
and sun and stars no energy can gather
to clarify your loveliness for me.
Yet in the dusk your light still lingers,
lingers in my mind for evermore.
Copyright © Keith Bickerstaffe | Year Posted 2016
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