THEY HAVE GAINED AN AUDIENCE<\/p>\n
with the divine. The plumbline is vertical
\nas the resulting verse, so that neither agony
\nnor ecstasy travel horizontally but curl and rise,
\nsweet smoke from the swung thurible. Perhaps<\/p>\n
these are the only prophets left to us, still able
\nto loop the loose thread of heaven through earth\u2019s
\nneedle-eye, a tremendous feat because her heavy lid
\ncannot stay open, closes now even on a clear day.<\/p>\n
I imagine a bird and the bird is language, the bird only send our winged words through the needle\u2019s eye, Image: Daniele Idini<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THEY HAVE GAINED AN AUDIENCE with the divine. The plumbline is vertical as the resulting verse, so that neither agony nor ecstasy travel horizontally but curl and rise, sweet smoke from the swung thurible. Perhaps these are the only prophets left to us, still able to loop the loose thread of heaven through earth\u2019s needle-eye, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":16736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[730,1400,1449,3240,3552,3941,3949,3950,3951,4018,7320,7341,9367,9368],"class_list":["post-16724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-audience","tag-cassandra-voices-haley-hodges","tag-cassandra-voices-poetry","tag-female-poet-haley-hodges","tag-gained","tag-haley-hodges-cassandra","tag-haley-hodges-poem","tag-haley-hodges-poet","tag-haley-hodges-poetry","tag-have","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-they","tag-they-have-gained-an-audience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nencircles the head of the most high and does not
\nflinch or burn, does not hide itself in a cleft of rock
\nthat the holy might pass by. It cannot land. The point
\nis that the bird approaches<\/em>\u2014the point is flight. We need<\/p>\n
\nthe poets tell me, as though it\u2019s easy, as though handfuls
\nof heaven are there for anyone to pattern, Dante or
\nthe old woman at the end of the street who drives out
\nalone to check her spring calves. And yet to see her
\nreturning at dusk, you\u2019d swear she has covenantal
\nrainbows on her face, in her white hair.<\/p>\n