Transubstantiation
Past depth, beyond the chemical,
Where collisions sometimes occur,
Awareness embeds particle,
Divinities themselves bestir.
Where collisions sometimes occur,
Here being from being splits off,
Divinities themselves bestir
Awake—they yawn, they stretch, they cough.
Here being from being splits off,
Reflecting essential matter.
Awake they yawn, they stretch, they cough,
They ripen into their nature.
Reflecting essential matter,
These hallowed ur-forces expand.
They ripen into their nature
In this difficult wonderland.
These hallowed ur-forces expand,
Awareness embeds particle,
In this difficult wonderland
Past depth, beyond the chemical.
Dennis Daly has published eleven books of poetry and poetic translations. A number of his translations have recently been published by Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House) in Uyghur Poems, part of Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets. Please visit his blog site here: dennisfdaly.blogspot.com.
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