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NOAH’S MUSIC
Prophet Noah fell in love with rain
Its pounding on the ark roof struck his
heartbeats like a tuning fork
Its white watery streaks coming down from a
black sky womb in incessant sheets
The joy of all those aquatic animals and
water birds the silly penguins and
sleek torpedo seals and weasels
God’s Voice-waves audible in lengthy water music
This absolute deed of His inundation visible
The heavens’ rhythms and mirrored constant
bobbing under the boat’s bow in cordial syncopation
Cascades spouting off the sides
out divinely inspired flues and drainpipes
like flared silvery wings
as he headed from one squall to
another down unfolding corridors of rainfall draperies
blacker than velvet toward no
certain light nor surcease of flood except what
he’d been promised and was
being promised with every rain-beat
His heart out there on the mast like
Odysseus’s earlier ears stopped up and manacled past
the shipwrecking sirens’ incessant magnetic song
But Noah’s heart a tympani for
rain mallets hitting deeper sounds
Forty days and forty nights of aquatic fury
each drop a direct hookup to God’s perfect purposes
Each animal eyeball in the dark trained on the
colossal chaos of water and yet
sweetly calm in their pure diurnal concentration
Noah at the helm letting
God be captain
each driven drop that much closer to His
actual Action in the world
The shroud of sky itself an illumined birth canal
Noah’s boat slid out of at last
washed utterly clean in
earth’s new dispensation
remembering God’s Names forever in the
hammering water drops and crashing waves’
compassionate collisions
6/28/2006
(from In The Space of Neither,
being prepared for publication )
Categories: Poems