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The Physics of Heaven

Published onDec 09, 2024
The Physics of Heaven
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The Physics of Heaven


If the scent of fig and hyacinth and fallen olive
leaves stays pinned
to earth, yet we, once crushed, ascend–
creatures, with conscience, ready to believe

 and rise–we may find in our spirited climb,
brushed by angels’ wings,
chafed by the rougher deeds
of our lives, that we too are pungent perfume

 distilled by light, drawn into the olfactory
of God; together
we are bowls of withered
leaves and petals, bits of bark, a potpourri:

 the universe breathes us in like attar
and breathes us out again as stars.

Volume 27, no. 2, 1999



Linda Malnack has published two poetry chapbooks, 21 Boxes (dancing girl press) and Bone Beads (Paper Boat Press). Her poetry appears in Prairie Schooner, The Madison Review, The Ilanot Review, Cloudbank, and elsewhere. Linda is a Poetry Editor for Crab Creek Review.

 

 

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