The I Am Awesome
a pigeon festival of bread crumbs.
red berries in the snow.
the scarecrows, the hyacinth.
and God, the Tangential and the Tender.
this awesome
you see an inflection of
which is not clear like words as a way
of spirit speaking
as a way of means speaking a metaphor
as an echo or a hymn, or this—biblical
“a song as in the night.”
the unknown force is the known.
I am confirmed. a common denominator
known as zero or a round circle. a zero
known as space with a circular eternal hold.
Notes:
From Translation (Eden Press, 1980). Reproduced with permission of Nina Rodgers Gordon.
This poem is part of the portfolio “Carolyn Marie Rodgers: What Beauty We Now Have” from the October 2022 issue.
Source: Poetry (October 2022)