It has been my privilege to work with Philip C. Kolin as the editor for this new book. I have also included one of his poems on my new web-journal Poems For Ephesians, which is on the McMaster Divinity College website.
Kolin is very active in the literary world, having, for example, recently co-edited a collection of poems about the Mississippi River for Louisiana Literature Press entitled Down to the Dark River. He is also the editor of the Southern Quarterly.
The following poem first appeared in America, and is from Reaching Forever.
When God Arrives
Let your eyes write
new tears for a pilgrimage
to a place you cannot see.
But wait
for the thick darkness.
That is when he will call
for you. Till then
quiver your soul.
Don’t think about
being made in his image.
You will only be looking
into a dark mirror.
He lives in infinity, and his voice is
an octave higher than silence.
His words thrum
through the clouds.
He whispers fire and speaks
in endless vowels.
He comes with a river bird
asperging feathers.
Pray for the sky that absorbs
evaporating continents
and black-plumed sins.
As his train goes by,
you realize you do not
have to wear
your body anymore.
*This is the second Kingdom Poets post about Philip C. Kolin: first post.
Posted with permission of the poet.
Entry written by D.S. Martin. His latest poetry collection is Ampersand (2018, Cascade). His books are available through Amazon, and Wipf & Stock, including the anthologies The Turning Aside, and Adam, Eve, & the Riders of the Apocalypse.
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