The Angel and the Girl

The angel and the girl are

Earth was the only meeting place.

For the embodied never

Travelled beyond the shore of space.

The eternal spirits in freedom go.

See, they have come together, see,

While the destroying minutes flow,

Each reflects the other's

Till heaven in hers and earth in

Shine steady there.

He's come to

From far beyond the farthest star,

Feathered through time.

Of strangest strangeness is the

That from their limbs all movement takes.

Yet the increasing rapture

So great a wonder that it

Each feather tremble on his

Outside the window footsteps

Into the ordinary

And with the sun along the

Pursue their unreturning

Sound's perpetual

Rolls its numbered octaves

And hoarsely grinds its battered

But through the endless

These neither speak nor movement make.

But stare into their deepening

As if their grace would never break.