What Do Angels Eat


I suppose
The first and best guess
Is nothing
They are heavenly
They seem to work
Unflagging
What need have they for
Food

What then
If a need
And for an energy source
For we may say they are
Relentless
Yet wonder if
Their energy is
Eternal

They are divine
(before some choose
another way)
Though they are not divinity
And so might
To fancy
Or daresay
Need fuel

I wonder if
They might draw energy
From sources in the
Cosmos
That they both know
And
Throughout
Time
And without
Time traverse

Say
With delight
They might soar through
The atmosphere
Of Venue
Fill their wings
Like sails
With wind
From gaseous origins

They might digest
Of
Slingshot movements
‘Round the sun
Or borrow from the
Energy
From orbits of the
Many moons
Of Saturn
Or of Jupiter

Borrowing
From Phobos
Deimos
Or the satellites
Of outer Neptune
Or
Dwarf planets

They might know the molecules
That fill what we consider
Empty space

They might eat dark matter
Or visit to the other ends
Of black holes
And so feast
From what is there
And so
Inside the center
Of each galaxy

So be replenished
From so many places

Or maybe a dimension’s slide
Into another
Provides nourishment of
Meals
So-called
Out of the multiverse

They eat
Without the worry
Of measure
Until our measures become
Or of other worlds become
Adept
To catch them
At their food
And so have proof
Though faith
(foolish
you might say)
Has long
And even
Now
Requires none


C L Couch


n. b.

Maybe they are feeding
From the leaves
In trees
(who says what size)
That fall through fall
Or reach up from the ground
In spring as
Seedings
Other plants
Flowers
And with an irony
What we need
And take
As crops
For food

(CLC)


Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash 

"Energy," by the way claims William Blake, "is eternal delight."