In the Day of the Lord



Well

God

What shall you give

Today

There is the day

There will be daylight

Well-

Insinuated

In an hour or so



There will be more

Time

In hours

Time to choose

For those

Who may choose

Who aren’t

Conscripted otherwise

Drafting

Oneself

For cause



But then

The cause

Might be a wonder

How about family

About

The partner

Who works out

In

Intimacy

As well as

What is profound



When about one’s nation

Call it people

Call it country

Group

Tribe

State

Region

Everything that has a name

Maybe a living

Constitution

For a document

For walks



The simple

And sublime

Which faces our distraction

And decisions

All the time

And certainly

Today



And God

There is more than patriotism

There is the reason for it

And the rest

That is

Well

You

And what you say

You make

What you say and make

That is creation

Whose pages form

A scripture

Every day



And then the book itself

Shelved

We take down

Perhaps

We hear someone else

Reading

And from which

Some teaching



Though the hour

Is a sermon

Too

This hour

Then the next

Should we have the next

Odds say

We’ll have



Inside our complex bodies

Have a day that’s plain

Landing here or there

Pleine aire

Or chez lui



And should one

Ask oneself

About salvation

Or get the question

From another

Answer

We hope so



C L Couch





Photo by Alex Guillaume on Unsplash

[photographer’s caption] In New York, in a little shop, those watches where there, hanging in front of me!