Denham and Truth Unveiled, Brown Hair, Sonnet Blue Eyes; the Purple and Black Cap of Rupert’s and Denham’s School House
The black and purple fell away. He knocked
The cap for fun but also so that he
Could see his hair. The light on it so shocked
Him that it made a gorgeous brown love plea.
A plea? No, more a rich command of warm
Brown love was what it shouted. Until
That moment it was silly. Then a swarm
Of gravity began to swell and spill
Inside his chest. He had not known till then
The meaning of the cosmos. Then he grasped
The deep theology that tortures men
With rhapsody. His hairless torso gasped.
The boy looked up and saw the poet’s eyes.
He saw truth’s facts. They came as no surprise.
~ Phillip Whidden