Childhood Country*

It was another time, an age ago.

Now I wonder where we are

when we lie together late in this supernal night.

Beside me in graceful repose,

there is an air of the numinous

in the light on your skin.

Our world is reeling through a wind shaped nimbus.

From beginning to end we know nothing beyond

the ecstasy and the dread.

Outside the engines, denizens and fauna hum –

a country

for children.

 

 

*The title is from “The Abduction” by Stanley Kunitz 

 

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