Wednesday ~ December 23, 201s

Aren't we enlarged
by the scale of what we're able
to desire? Everything,
the choir insists,
might flame;
inside these wrappings
burns another, brighter life,
quickened, now,
by song: hear now,
it cascades, in overlapping,
lapidary waves of praise? Still time.
Still time to change.

( Mark Doty, 1953 -    )