This poem is about desiring God, and for the spirit to fully incarnate in flesh. I have long thought that the best metaphors for understanding God is through parenthood, the unconditional love for a child, and through being lovers, desiring to become one flesh and gloriously meld spirits. One is more hierarchical and the other more egalitarian. This poem is on the ladder, a full groan meditation on the unsatisfying veil between me and God, and wanting more.
To Know a Veil
God came and kissed me
Hearty and tender
Yet through a veil
Desirous of flesh on flesh
Envious of unfettered spirits soaring
Only to find myself
In sackcloth
Unsatisfied
More annunciation than consummation
As flesh before spirit
As spirit after flesh
Left as awkward bedfellows
Right as rein
Wanting
To no a veil
