Hellhounds, Starve

Hellhounds, Starve

Spread wide are gates, the wider gates of sky

And God’s horizon.  White divinity

Spreads out through widest doors.  A sideways eye

Looks outwards, waxing to infinity.

No bolts exist now.  Everything is spread

So far that clouds cannot imperil.  Locks

Are gone; no need for waking guardians, fled

Now into silence.  Black pupils of hawks

Turned here to sidelong certainty defy

The enemies of king and dawning soul.

This spirit dawning will look out and spy

The path that leads so widely to the whole.

  Don’t bother stars and constellations or

    Eclipses staggering. Death is no more.