The Allure of the Unseen
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“Show me your glory,”
Moses said to God,
and God showed Moses
a slender shoulder.
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Having slipped a strap
down to the elbow,
God walked away with
Aphrodite’s charm.
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Isaiah saw God
seated on a throne
in a bedchamber
behind a curtain.
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God wore a bathrobe
of silk and velvet,
but soon the boudoir
filled with flames and smoke.
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Peter, James, and John
climbed up a mountain
hidden far away
in nature’s silence.
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There they shook in fear,
beholding the face
of the one, true God,
who shone like the sun.
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It was ecstasy,
that of a virgin
in silv’ry moonlight
on her wedding night.
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A voice from on high
ripping through the clouds
broke the blinding bliss:
“Consummatum est.”
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“Never speak of it,”
said the Son of God,
“until I wake up
yours forever more.”
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“…it exercised upon us the allure of what has never been seen…”
–André Breton, L’amour fou
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Best wishes,
David J.W. Inczauskis, S.J.
