Union Triptych III: The Choir

 

The Union Triptych

Dedicated to their husband

 

 

Union Triptych III: The Choir

 

The Day Star[i] dawns in Gilead[ii].

Walking together in the avenues of our hearts.

We have dined at the Feast of Elijah’s Angel[iii].

Well-fed are all the deep warm hungry holes of our hearts.

The Poets of our Day

carry in our hearts:

Notes Toward the Definition of the Epic Poems of our Age.

We learn to sing together.

Every small act of kindness,

an act of seditious happiness,

in an ugly world.

Birthing unending Beauty.

 

 

 

Copyright

© Lottie E. Allen

Thursday 22 July

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-One

 

Footnotes

 

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[i] “To the one who conquers I will give the morning star”. Revelation Chapter 2 Verse 28 (NRSV). In the Venerable Bede’s Commentary on the Book of Revelation he transfigures the text recognising that “Christ is the Morning Star”.

[ii] “Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of my poor people not been restored?”. Jeremiah Chapter 8 Verse 22 (NRSV).  The African American Tradition has transfigured the text in the Spiritual “There is a Balm in Gilead”.

[iii] “Get up, and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you". I Kings Chapter 19 Verse 7 (NRSV).