I try to form prayer’s capital word
On my tongue. O sweet imagination
Give it shape enough! Love!
Love should taste of something,
The sea, I think, brined and unsteady,
Of scale and deep and all we crawled out from.
Of first day, the Spirit’s debut,
The frantic dove torn apart,
Her feathers ash on Eden.
Yet of that of which we cannot speak
We must pass over in silence –
Selah!
The Spirit itself maketh intercession for us
With groanings
Which cannot be uttered.