Dorothy Walters - A cloth of fine gold

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A cloth of fine gold

You may think
that first lit flame
was the ultimate blaze,
the holy fire
entered at last.

What do you know of furnaces?
This is a sun that returns
again and again, refining, igniting,
pouring your spirit
through a cloth of delicate gold
until all dross is taken
and you are sweet as
clarified butter
in god's mouth.

Dorothy Walters

Comments

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Please edit your post to match the default LJ font (rule #3) (http://greatpoets.livejournal.com/profile). Thanks.

(Edit: Ditto for all three of your posts to the community today. Thank you.)