Illusive Flesh Of Light

Today as the news
from Selma and Saigon
poisons the air
like fallout,
I come again
to see the serene,
great picture that
I love.

Here space and time
exist in light
the eye like the eye
of faith believes.
The seen, the known
dissolve in iridescence,
become illusive flesh
of light
that was not, was,
forever is.

O light beheld
as through
refracting tears.
Here is the aura
of that world
each of us has lost.
Here is the shadow
of its joy.

--Robert Hayden
"Monet's Waterlilies"
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Claude Monet : "Waterlilies"
entrance to Temple of Karnak
Phantom Creek monkeyflowers
Josh Williams Band: "Many A Mile"
Seventyfive Mile Canyon
view east from outside Zoroaster Canyon