MAENTWROG #37
TO CHRIST OUR LORD
How looks heaven now stung with
brilliance, missing
no minted gilded golden spoked wheel of
fire, moted
of million-fold pointed pierced
light eyelets singing
where Michael by all that starry press is
voted
most spiritual, principal,
pre-eminent; a first-song
to lesser breaking indivisible ray-notes,
all save-
ing nor sparing crescendo of
tiny flames heaven-long;
never the blazing praise concluding the
galactic octave!
Lucifer is zealous in jealousy, self-smitten
by pride;
by his own heart wounded, his darkness must hide ---
his stars now all the sand of earth.
From my own dark grain let me birth
my fallen star into a little
light of mine;
let me so shine, o Lord, to reflect thine!
[OADA]...The poem above was begun by K’lakokum when he
was Gerard Manley Hopkins residing at Maentwrog in Wales, and that early work
is found in the Hopkins archives in their Maentwrog section, labeled as
‘Fragment 37’. K’lakokum completed this
poem in his current incarnation in 2003, and has retained the archival title
given by Simon Baruch/Robert Bridges.
For continuity, he has used, for the fourth time, the same sub-title as
in Windhover. The present version, for reasons of
typographical limitation in this format only, does not provide the sprung
rhythm marks which it does contain in the manuscript.
[OADB]...The event described in the first triplet of
the sestet in this sonnet occurs frequently in the poetry of K’lakokum, qua K’lakokum, qua Gerard Manley Hopkins, qua
Andrew, qua Jeremiah. It has numerous short references and five
detailed descriptions in the Judeo-Christian scriptures. Two of those five are written in the past
tense, two in the future tense, one in the present tense. The event is thus a continuous event, in
fact, THE Alpha-Omega event which is both the first and last event of TIME. It is the Event which describes the nature of
time. It is THE heresy counter-point to
the Word of God, that Person who embodies the solution to the problem of Time,
and who is described in the octet of this sonnet. It is an event which begins with em-body-ing,
with understanding the nature of reality creation.
Copyright © 2003, K’lakokum
Extract
from original manuscript notes to Against the American Heresy
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