of my favorites, and you needn't have ever seen a performance of Handel's Messiah to appreciate it. It's long, linearly speaking, so I've only written out the latter part, but it's a wonderful poem in its entirety:
Aren't we enlarged
by the scale of what we're able
to desire? Everything,
the choir insists,
might flame;
inside these wrappings
burns another, brighter life,
quickened, now,
by song: hear how
it cascades, in overlapping,
lapidary waves of praise? Still time.
Still time to change.
from Kristen Hoggart: The Smart Set: Ask a Poet: Stocking Stuffers
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