Ragged Claws

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Can revelation ever be a mercy?
To leave your house,
like Saul, to head out for
Damascus - and be blinded…
To claim that God (or
finding God) is love may
be as much acknowledgement as
revelation: That both destroy old worlds.
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Love may become a habit
that you learn to wear
and to take care of - like
refugees, who leave one element,
may learn to [...]

Could I undress you
with one word,
one look,
that word (or look)
would need to last
a thousand years
to do you justice.