Now
The religious acceptance -
being on the number 3 bus,
for example, something
so habitual during my teens
and beyond as to be
quite unselfconscious -
the view from the top deck
at Kennington, the lever
for winding down the window,
the pattern on the upholstered seats
- these things were as God is,
they were beyond beautiful
or ugly, beyond even
loved or hated, they were,
and in symbiosis with them
I was, all angst -
not all, but the deepest -
assuaged -
there is nothing to fear,
nothing to doubt,
though the world should be
swept away under
a mushroom cloud
or overrun by rats,
maggots and reptiles -
the spirit that was
in those specifics
is indestructible,
and has no other tense
than the present -
the eternal present,
though buses are no more
than a blink on even
a quite limited
historical timescale -
nesting inside
the geological
inside
the cosmological -
the eternal present
is unabashed
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