Luminescence

Luminescence

...for Hart Crane

 

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 show no movement readily,

no broken sea reveals your rippled hand.

 

Layer upon 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, 

bright and undeniable, the mystery

still haunts my dreams and will for evermore.

 

Allow me to be by your side once more.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2008

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