Rorate Caeli – a poem by Abigail Robejsek

Rorate Caeli

The vowels of my body 
reverberate round and visceral, 
ruminate on velleities, Rorate Caeli, 
on the revolutions of Venus, 
of valves and vaults, of rubies, 
of Revelations, ruminate on the vortex of veins
that run and return, the veins that heard 
language rendered through viscera, 
felt rhythm, vermillion and swathed,
sacreligious, sibilant, sonorous
language that passed through skin
retrograde and radiant,
the swooning and surging word
was sanguine, it held me, 
until the heavens dropped down,
               a trillion eyes fluttering silver-washed, 
the light appeared,
the rain opened the earth.