Luminary
'Luminary' by Jonathan Wooding
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
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