God Song 4
Editor’s Note: This poem by Aaron Rosen is being presented as part of our special focus on poetry during #PoetryMonth in April. Please read our introduction to the series.
On God-watch, his words
deprived of destiny
rejoice in the mischief of the unsaid.
With unrelenting hindsight, he
under the spell of a sly clock,
filibusters time’s death-wish
his words now manhandled to no end.
Greedy for face-time,
his words, afraid to be lost,
rally to a faith-in-waiting.
Lingering in ungodly space
they become in time
the humbug of departure
a difficult collage.
Used with permission from Wesleyan University Press
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