Unknown Sun
"light which is not sum" —Norma Cole, Mars
The workaround or aura
Not like repetition
When we get to the final sun
The maps are water the water gold
He would not honor me
You explain then against
The disbelief displayed by the character
I couldn’t know him
But knew love and
Know it through knowledge
“Love never falls off whether prophecies
will be abolished whether tongues stopped”
Announced as the fact
Redolent of what was
The defining addition
More than the parts
Unprecedented
Ardor also not
Adding up to
Sun or son to sum
The outcome
Unknowable
Perfect and
Unavowed
The same sound
Unknown sum
Copyright Credit: Laura Moriarty, "Unknown Sun" from Who That Divines. Copyright © 2014 by Laura Moriarty. Reprinted by permission of Nightboat Books, www.nightboat.org.
Source: Who That Divines (Nightboat Books, 2014)