| Radiant the delayed calmness,
—Do you feel it, I said. —Yes, you said, of what only each can know,
kernel of radiance, the globo terrestre of a water drop, not the passing adaptations
of canonical light, but seconds stilled— our hearts beating through the moments—centuries
of the next tick of a watch relieved, a world enough in time to imagine
Piero walk to work across cobblestones toward a completion, his close attention
to sunlight passing through shadows owned by the sharp angles of buildings,
sunrays warming what they touch.
Piero, first a painter, is not a monk.
He will make what welcomes light a source of light: slow the day
he will add lucent black wings
to white feathers of the magpie
ever alight on a roof-edge. I found a feather on a stone, feather I thought
from the angel’s wing, that arc of light held aloft in descent, shared with us
and Constantine in his dream. I think of a white egret returning home near
the high creek, through unwavering evening light, to sleep, sleep at Sansepolcro,
where we were headed in a rental car.   Copyright © 2014 by James Brasfield. Used with permission of the author. | 
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