Coals
Corn, Alfred
Coals No two alike, exchanging nuances Of fervor, each core permeable To wingbeats lit with utterance's Halation, golden streambed gravel Immersed in a baptismal shimmer Nearly inaudible but...
...She'd say: Repay Evil with good, our sole defense...
...Alfred Cornlfred Corn...
...Great-grandmother's coal fires winters Back in the scriptural forties filled Our rooms with thick carbonic reek- With prophesying infrareds So fierce they stung (and sting) the cheek That then put up with and now laments Old age's kiss...
...For Virtue heaps coals of fire on hatred, 111 will...
...Coals No two alike, exchanging nuances Of fervor, each core permeable To wingbeats lit with utterance's Halation, golden streambed gravel Immersed in a baptismal shimmer Nearly inaudible but never stilled...
...Seraph, bring one from the grate for Lips more given to blame than to amends...
Vol. 130 • July 2003 • No. 13
