{"id":3676,"date":"2019-03-01T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2019-03-01T00:01:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T00:01:57","slug":"from-psalm-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2019\/03\/01\/from-psalm-119\/","title":{"rendered":"From Psalm 119"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Gimel\/Retribue servo tuo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>O do well unto thy servant<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Vincible world, I see blown blossom<br \/>\nhurled with the crumpled rooks before May\u2019s<br \/>\nimpertinent, spooky breezes; newly-dressed<br \/>\nbranches rattled already before<br \/>\ncounter-prevalent and centrifuge gusts.<\/p>\n<p>Vincible earth, no stranger to <em>kenosis<\/em>, then;<br \/>\nit\u2019s what you do. I can\u2019t arrive at saying it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m lip-deep in the unsayable, (don\u2019t you know?)<br \/>\ndealing out, let\u2019s say, deuteranopic cusses<br \/>\nto a space and time all-too-green, in fact,<br \/>\nto observe Coverdale\u2019s green observations<br \/>\nin the bright shadows of Hebrew\u2019s plenty.<\/p>\n<p>Lip-labour for our vincible domain<br \/>\nin the light and shadow of opulence.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><br \/>\nHe\/Legem pone<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Prayer\u2019s printed page whitens out of seeing;<br \/>\nself-divesting, and on the run, leaked<br \/>\nin a voiced extinction, <em>even as the fire<br \/>\n<\/em><em>among the thorns<\/em>,<br \/>\n_\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 its bright dereliction<br \/>\nwithout self-favour, but spoiling<br \/>\nimmarcescibly into faith\u2019s erasures;<br \/>\na pale palimpsest, even Cranmer\u2019s gift.<\/p>\n<p>My page is blinded. Its tongue is stolen.<br \/>\nGod\u2019s syntax is glass, o! cerulean<br \/>\ntitmouse! It\u2019s entropy\u2019s hard vacancy.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t be caught,<br \/>\n_\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 songbird iconoclast!<br \/>\nnot in time\u2019s continuum, but before<br \/>\nuntimely Abraham. Good philosopher,<br \/>\n<em>teach us the way of thy statutes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><br \/>\nYodh\/Manus tuae fecerunt me<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Thy hands have made me and fashioned me<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the waiting. Waiting for the form<br \/>\nof a hand, in <em>likeness as the appearance<br \/>\n<\/em><em>of fire<\/em>, from Ezekiel\u2019s amber chambers.<\/p>\n<p>There in the nonsense, today, of my roustabout<br \/>\napple trees and oak, the willow next door,<br \/>\nthough not the form of a fiery, friendly hand.<\/p>\n<p>It would all be too easy. There\u2019d be no need<br \/>\nfor Empson\u2019s <em>monstrously clotted<\/em> language \u2013<br \/>\nantagonyms of faith in affliction.<\/p>\n<p>Swelling with the skittery breezes, willow<br \/>\nis no open hand but clutched then hurling,<br \/>\nyes, a likeness as the appearance of fire.<\/p>\n<p>And, monstrously clotted, Ezekiel wavers<br \/>\ninto afflicted speech, and this faithful, fiery hand.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sections of\u00a0Psalm One Hundred and Nineteen\u00a0have also found a home in\u00a0Scintilla\u00a0journal. Poems from\u00a0An Atheist\u2019s Prayer-Book\u00a0are forthcoming at\u00a0Litter. Reviews have appeared at\u00a0Litter, and at\u00a0Stride. A PhD,\u00a0Natural Strange Beatitudes, can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearl.plymouth.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.pearl.plymouth.ac.uk<\/a>. Jonathan Wooding has spoken at academic conferences in Plymouth, Oxford and York on the poetry of Geoffrey Hill.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gimel\/Retribue servo tuo O do well unto thy servant Vincible world, I see blown blossom hurled with the crumpled rooks before May\u2019s impertinent, spooky breezes; newly-dressed branches rattled already before counter-prevalent and centrifuge gusts. Vincible earth, no stranger to kenosis, then; it\u2019s what you do. I can\u2019t arrive at saying it. I\u2019m lip-deep in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":3670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[205],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized","tag-2019march"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676","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\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/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=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}