Luminescence (Repost)

...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.

Permit me to be by your side once more.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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March 22, 2009 at 5:32 PM
This lovely Verse flows so sweetly, Keith. I still love these Hart Crane inspired writes by you. They have always managed to wrap themselves around me as I read. Beautiful piece! Love and hugs, Robin
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