Herewith, the latest selection from dusted-off published poetry and short fiction, circa 1970s vintage and beyond....
Spiritual Revenance
Angelic hierarchy
flutter my adoring mind
transfix my soul
with melody of the spheres
that grand celestial psalmody.
Zodiacal Intermediaries!
Messengers of Light!
Succouring Avengers!
Ministering Flames!
Through sightless orbs
materializes a melange
of lesser lights
Cherubs, Seraphim
guarding G-d's only throne
ascend gently to
Angels, Archangels
biblic Michael, Gabriel, Raphael
(as for Metatron he
lurks unbecomingly
behind seventy names)
terrifically awe-ful
manifestly inspiring all
permutations of brilliant majesty
The Heavenly Host.
(Never speak of
clattering harpies
winging star-flecked time.)
Renascent deification
plagiarizations
from misted fearful antiquity
Persia, Assyria, Babylonia
lost age of fabled Mesopotamia
lighting mortality's
frail landscapes.
Support my wasted clay
oh vibrant lozenges
you golden-haloed faultless
brazen-imaged
myriad-eyed pretenders.
Where are you
when my pious tongue
worships your
Forbidden Name?
c. 1978 Rita Rosenfeld
published in Quarry, Spring 1978
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