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-halowed faultless
     brazen-imaged
myriad-eyed pretenders.

Where are you
when my pious tongue
worships your
Forbidden Name?