Christ Listening to Stereo

(From "Visions of a skylark dressed in black")

The clashing knives of sorrow

and screeching profanities of history

melt into bronze pools of deeper meaning.

Eternity is this holy-fool jazz-tune composed by Love.

The sound of salvation is the sound

of understanding: why we bother to breathe at all.

And one leaf touching the earth explodes like a symphony.

The words "I Love You"

kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second