LOVE POEM:
PENTECOST!
Hannah Keziah Agustin
ALL LANGUAGE! ALL BAPTIZED WITH FIRE!
WIND RUSHING ABOUT US! REACHING! A SHEARING
GALE! MOVEMENT! THE WORLD TURNING AND TURNING!
WE ARE MADE ALIVE IN THE SIGH AND TEMPEST OF HEAVEN!
WE ARE RESURRECTED IN THE GUST OF HER! IN THE NIGHT!
THE WEIGHT OF GLOSSOLALIA ON OUR TONGUES! COLLAPSING
THE AIR BETWEEN US! HOW YOUR LAUGHTER ON MY NECK
ASUNDERS ME! HOW YOUR TOUCH BENDS ME INTO SUBMISSION!
I KNEEL AT THE GUST OF MERCY! IT IS DARK AND WE ARE ALL
RADIANT! AFLAME WITH THE ORIGINAL WORD! ALL LANGUAGE!
HANNAH KEZIAH AGUSTIN is from the Philippines. Her work is found and forthcoming in Guernica, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.
The art that appears alongside this piece is “title” by SELA RICKETTS.