<div class="line">I’ve seen the face of God too many times</div>
<div class="line">in such gold as the morning carves in trees</div>
<div class="line">or Montezuma’s noon piles on my feet</div>
<div class="line">or evenings, moonless nights the brightest,</div>
<div class="line">the stars enough to canopy the sky.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">And then, of course, in the faces of strangers</div>
<div class="line">I find in my wife, my daughters and my son.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">The recognitions that put out my eyes.</div>
<div class="line"> </div>
<div class="line">What do I make of this unaskforness,</div>
<div class="line">the wordlessness I make into one word</div>
<div class="line">then the next, trying to light a world</div>
<div class="line">on earth approximating what I see,</div>
<div class="line">the indescribability of being seen?</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/CooleyRecursives.mp3"></audio></figure>

Apophatic

Dua for Dervishes

Recursives

<div class="line">Go light a candle in your darkest room.</div>
<div class="line">If you can’t find the candle, find the room.</div>
<div class="line">If you can’t find the room, then the candle.</div>
<div class="line">If you go, you know, one of them will come.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">It is simple, to pray, to meditate</div>
<div class="line">You need to fly beyond expectation</div>
<div class="line">And all you need is darkness and some light.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">This morning I came into my study</div>
<div class="line">Before dawn but the candle was this poem</div>
<div class="line">Disguised as a sheet of plain white paper.</div>
<div class="line">Because I left it here to wait for me</div>
<div class="line">Last night before I slept it was on fire.</div>
<div class="line">It’s a small flame I put my hand into</div>
<div class="line">Without pain, with the gold transfiguring</div>
<div class="line">Just everything in sight, which is enough.</div>


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May 2, 2012Instructions for Assembling the MiraclePeter Cooley

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