The Daring of Paradise by Brian Day

Author:Brian Day [Day, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry, religion, theology, mythology, Brian Day
ISBN: 9781550717112
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Published: 2014-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

Muhammad and the Moon

He stands at the base of a column of moonlight

And camels kneel before him.

And again as he gazes on a new revelation

The sky as he’s known it breaks into bits,

The moon parting as bread into crumbs of white.

Muhammad has observed how the heavens are sundered

How they need the press of human thought

To restore them toward an unfractured whole.

And camels kneel before him.

The moon, like a soul, like a flock in a tree,

Is a delicate assembly inclining to shards.

And when it is puzzling in the night above us

And scripture is a scattering of luminous fragments

That form no trail, no hope of home,

The moon floats broken as the heart of God

And calls those who see it to the work of mending.

Muhammad is a desert then, praying for rain.

And camels kneel before him.

He knows that the moon is remade like words,

The rounding of verses to curve and sphere.

He knows that our feast must float whole in the heavens

So that light might complete every crevice inside us –

Healing our fissures as we’re smoothed in its hands

And making us pitchers to sail white through the sky.

Water runs from the thirst of Muhammad’s fingers,

And the moon is the giving clay he forms.

Muhammad as a child shapes the yielding light:

Turning it until it again takes wing,

Until we see the circle of its awestruck face

As it steers unassisted through the dark of the sky.

And camels kneel before him.

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