John 1:14

 

John

1:14

 

All your life you’ve been asleep, all us sleeping

and now the great waking begins.

                                                John Lynch

                                                Prophet Song

 

Word made flesh it’s said.  What if:

 

THE word made flesh or what if

the WORD made flesh or what if

the word MADE flesh or what if

the word made FLESH or what if

 

you could see I could do this

all night and day take that

phrase and make it say some

thing different every time make it mean

or make it mean make it

or make it make it mean it or make

it mean take it just simply 

take it.  yes?                            yes.

 

utterly.

every

single

time.

 

Until we all suffer the rusted

adjustment.  Until we step up

to the threshold and take on

the asking:

 

are we along the way

the breather or

are we along the way

the breathed upon?

 

&

 

I want to say it was a word

that made you but I can’t say

which one it was and it isn’t

because I don’t remember

 

it is because I consider myself

the door who doesn’t know,

whose hinge pins are stiff

& still in their barrels

 

and squeak remorselessly when 

or if word opens it.  word

in the knuckle bones of four

fingers knocking,  word in the flat flesh

 

of the palm word held up

to the window glass in the

arriving or declining light

waiting on the knob to be turned