Luminary

'Luminary' by Jonathan Wooding

by Jonathan Wooding 19th July 2019

In memory of RS Thomas

You say the mystic, when she’s not a poet, fails
to mediate the – hang on –

mysterium tremendum et fascinans, (that’s God),
and then you riddle us with the immediacy

of the mystic Deus absconditus. So, God’s
absconded, and the mystic’s in that room