brief chapels along the way – a poem by JBMulligan

brief chapels along the way


An alphabet of birds
lettering the sky.
The meaning of their words
moves in velocity.

They huddle on the wires,
movement at a rest
till morningsong requires
another verse, at least.

The language of the hymn
has some theology
of God-in-things, whose claim
rests in locality

JBMulligan has published more than 1100 poems and stories in various magazines, and has published two chapbooks: The Stations of the Cross and This Way To Egress, as well as 2 e-books: The City of Now and Then, and A Book of Psalms (a loose translation), plus appearances in more than a dozen anthologies.

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