Word of a New: After St. Paul
I.
On Colossians 1:24-27 and -19
We suffer the one becoming
letting our flesh conceive or clasp
the rumor that is warm about us:
one we are becoming
is within us, in us,
wider in birth than all the wounds we were.
The one we are becoming
is the one that dies to death,
living us on and over,
on to the earth of other, which is joy.
II.
On 2 Corinthians 12:9
Ever it is in me
the one becoming says abundantly
you are, in me.
Abyss we saw between us
is our place Now, of light.
Wherever I thought to hide my face
I’m shying into sight –
every Now a clearing,
a nearing of the one becoming.
III.
On Ephesians 4:7-13
In and out of each of us
is given all,
all of the one becoming,
called in our writings Risen,
clasping who were kept alone,
holding who were held apart
for what is risen other
than of down and in and with? –
reaching to the full,
the body of becoming,
tallest in its telling
of our provenance of love,
telling all together
in the love we limn.
IV.
On 1 Corinthians 13:12
We stare into our darkness
as a mirror, call it Now,
not saying the name,
not knowing the name, the later,
wider face of We –
We that we’ll be known as
where we’re known, home in the length of every limb.
V.
On Philippians 3:10-12
May that be where I’m known:
where all of me is known to suffer
one becoming
coming forth,
party to a death that brings together.
Becoming brings together
out of death. We touch the We
wherever we are touched.
VI.
On Colossians 2:9-12, 14
There in the one becoming
is the fulness of the living
where to live is to be known
and to be going,
be come along in every limb
before beginnings,
after all the answers,
not departing out of flesh
but undergoing what is ever going,
going on and over every word of man
that ever did forbid us.
--Lloyd Haft
