Let

by John Fox


Original Language English

It is time for us to kiss the earth again
It is time to let leaves rain from the skies,
Let the rich life run to the earth again.
Robinson Jeffers

This little word spelt

l - e - t

nearly splits apart in the mouth
as one speaks it: l - e - t

As if there are already
two ancient sluices
laid down in-between
the l and the e,
the e and then the t.

Speaking this word
lets a trickle
become the flood, one
snowdrop the great river,
just as Galileo's truth
let Einstein's vision out.

From Genesis
to slavery's abolition
God speaks: “Let there be light!”
as when Fredrick Douglass
tells Lincoln something
akin to Moses, "Let my people go."

A wholeness of letting
is found within the heart's atrium,
where that sacred entrance makes its
departure through the ventricle,
where earth welcomes
us and our lingering kiss.

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