Micah Towery

The Holy Spirit at the Baptism of Christ

…the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on Him…

                                        Matthew 3:16

More akin
to a falling mirror of
a dove than
the dove itself–
flat as a page
with depth
and that deepness
turning itself in
many dimensions,
somehow expands finitude,
a black hole of light–
this must be where gravity goes.

And this must be
how God answers
His own prayer:
the voice of God
conforms itself to a whisper–
the whisper submits
to the wind, blown
this way, that–
what hovered over
the waters of creation
hovers again
over new waters,
a new creation.

Micah Towery has his MFA from Hunter College. He enjoys making his own yogurt and blogging on http://www.thethepoetry.com.