Wound Is the Origin of Wonder by Maya C. Popa

Author:Maya C. Popa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

MILTON VISITS GALILEO IN FLORENCE

Hard to say if what they saw

was geometry or God, galaxies roiling

wordlessly each night, a summary of light

painted fresh across the firmament.

Ink bringing daybreak into Eden, the angels,

listless in their graces, latent good

pooling with nothing to war over.

A jug of water on the table between them

like an artifact of loneliness, the telescope’s

moons on Satan’s shield—it was, after all,

a human friendship, full of mortality’s tokens.

Both went blind in their old age.

Begin again in darkness, life says sometimes.

Picture the trees burning in autumn,

the earth’s relief, at last, at being fallen.

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