By Pavel Chichikov
Symmetrically the Alps in motion
Slip away on silver wheels
Retrograde the ocean's flowing
Tidally beneath our heels
Royal leather white-embossed
Saline movement stillness-tossed
Stratospheric friction's foil
Hull and engines two-sides thin
Drag a shadow dark as oil
Above the ocean's mottled skin,
Passengers unhoured, pray
Toward the sunset fall away
Distorted and by Christ unwon
Losing form the further west
Bodies falling toward the sun
Shrink inside a metal cyst
Disfigured by our entropy
Time expends the passing sea
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The word of James, the Savior's brother
Dies, we silence one another
Christ say mercy for us all
As David to the maddened Saul
Unlock the fastened human breast
That barricades its loving Guest
Shimmer light, accept with love
As Mary did the ivory dove
Reach us tumbling through the hours
Toward our solitary towers
Where all the expectations pace
But never see approaching grace
Breast to breast infuse Your Heart
And beat within Your silent art
(Click here to follow Pavel's ongoing epic poem “The Shoulder of the Sun.” You may visit Pavel's website at http://www.greyowlpress.com.)
