by Rhoda Taylor
joy
after e.e.cummings
i thank You God for most this delightful
night:for the springing whispering course of brooks
and a sparkling darkening dream of sky;and for
everything which is soft which is dark which is right
(i who have lived am living still tonight,
and this is the moon’s wedding night;this is the twi
light of unquenched desire:and the consummation
of all lived existence)
how should rational analytical
logical any – lifted from the dust
of full nothing – human merely thinking being
doubt unmeasurable You?
(now the thought of my mind awakes and
now the mind of my thought is opened)
Dan Thompson (PhD) is a former editor and professor whose poetry, personal essays, articles, and reviews have been published in scholarly as well as literary journals (including, within the past year, issues of Canary, Eclectica, Black Coffee Review, Rat’s Ass Review, and Jerry Jazz Musician, among others). In an earlier life, he worked as a disc jockey at a country-music radio station.
Rhoda Taylor was born in London England but has been living and working in Southern Ireland since 1996. https://rhodataylor.com