Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Angels in the Sun by Ruben Quesada

Angels in the Sun
                               
                  after Turner
 
I would have waited alone a thousand
years for the coming of angels,
blinding bright as the spring sun to arrive,
 
to abandon this world for another.
Stunned by their flashing lights aflame
 
across the bow of their space craft—landing
 
lights for that world. Herds of animals:
horses, humans, and fish fixed.
The angels approached.
 
Come angels! Come beasts!
Men and women cried out
to each other; the angels cried;
 
some were lost between their earthly life
 
and paradise and what is paradise, anyway?
Few imagined being bound to this world;
 
blue halo of emerald mountains;
extraordinary, ordinary—they rose,
a crucifixion yardarm flying away.





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