After Long and Slowly Burn
After long and slowly burn
the violet and final black,
blaze the white of early turn
of year; floweret where yet lack
leaf and vine, the green deferred.
Dazzle light in lengthen day
so banish dark where song of bird
shall not ring, and rise the way
of sun in sky; shadows will flee
underfoot, so trample down
the dark. Petal and song agree:
birth redeemed, and all the ground
in light transform. The many shades
reunite, and sky remade.
Connor Patrick Wood is a poet and Substacker (https://cultureuncurled.substack.com) in Arlington, Massachusetts. He holds a BA in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in religion and science from Boston University. Before he left academia, Connor’s research on the cognitive science of ritual was funded by the John Templeton Foundation. He has published poetry at the Rabbit Room Substack, Ekstasis, and elsewhere.
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