Poem-A-Day: Another Elegy by Jericho Brown

Another Elegy by Jericho Brown   To believe in God is to love  What none can see. Let a lover go,  Let him walk out with the good  Spoons or die  Without a signature, and so much  Remains for scrubbing, for a polish  Cleaner than devotion. Tonight,  God is one spot, and you,  You must be one blind nun. You  Wipe, you rub, but love won't move.     Copyright © 2013 by Jericho Brown. Used with permission of the author. About this Poem:   "Someone I loved died, then someone I loved left me, then this happened where I teach (now on a leave of absence). And I guess I have yet to get over Sylvia Plath's, 'I am a nun now. I have never been so pure.'" Jericho Brown Poetry by Brown Please   Poem-A-Day launched in 2006 and features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day archive.   Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org. April 9, 2013 Jericho Brown is the author of  Please (New Issues, 2008). He is  the recipient of a Whiting Writers'  Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. He teaches at Emory University.  Related Poems Heaven for Helen by Mark Doty Pilgrimage by Natasha Trethewey Who Is God? So Asked Our Dog by Dara Wier

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