A. A. Marcoff
Missa solemnis
song interweaving with song, worlds erupting with singing, light the choral accompaniment to affirmation as the sun opens up into flowers I recognise in stars, a morning in which robin and wren and blackbird turn almost metaphysical with the seed that is dawn, the genesis of all things, as trees breeze with their green leaves, in the green cantata of reality, and the valley rises like a white butterfly into the white hawk of the hills, the world becoming itself – wild with expression like grass, thistle and the west – or the wind and the weather and the wherefore – and the waves of gull in the sky and the why, in the glide and nuance of swan and light and water, advent of song after song after song, in hymn, radiant and rain, in descant and enchantment, as the wild and the garden coincide like fire inherent:
I thought about God I thought about the world & the sun shone & the kingfisher flew
About the Author
A. A. Marcoff is an Anglo-Russian poet who has lived in Africa, Iran, France and Japan. He writes haiku, tanka, tanka-prose and mainstream poetry, and lives near the beautiful River Mole in England.