Unto us
Lord absolute.
Wonder counselor.
With us. Mighty.
(Bring war, bring peace, old age, jollity.)
Do you know the laws of heaven?
Order the clouds? Send lightnings?
Lord, king.
For ever and ever.
A given son, a burden carried.
Everlasting.
(Bring magic, bring mystic.)
Did you give wings to the peacock and the heron?
Did you clothe in thunder the grizzly and the rhino?
Rattle the heavens and the earth,
the sea and the dry land.
All nations.
(Bring message.)
Reign.
Patrick T. Reardon is the author of twelve books, including the poetry collections Requiem for David, Darkness on the Face of the Deep and The Lost Tribes. His memoir in prose poems Puddin’: The Autobiography of a Baby was published by Third World Press with an introduction by Haki Madhubuti. It has been described by Mindbender Review of Books as “the most improbable and intriguing personal account by a writer published in 2022, but quite possibly the most ingeniously imagined memoir by any writer in any given year.” He has two new poetry collections: Salt of the Earth: Doubts and Faith from Kelsay Books and Let the Baby Sleep from the Australian publisher In Case of Emergency.
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