The Hastily Assembled Angel Considers the Kingdoms of Dogs and of People
By Shane McCrae
The hastily assembled angel wanders
And has through cities centuries of cities
And countries and millennia of cities
And countries and of women and of men there’s
No hurry now though he was hurriedly
Once brought to being and bears the scars of that
Though slowly in the Earth though slowly he
Eventually began to wonder what
The hurry had been for and if he could
Have been a better angel or have done
Better the job he did if once
They’d made him the other angels had allowed
Him to meet God for he has been uncertain
As people are uncertain he has nev-
er been as certain as dogs are who sniff
The wind that moves the curtain and see behind the curtain
Source: Poetry (November 2018)