Grail
Always the hope at the last
or else call it knowledge,
that through imperfection
the saving power arrives.
And beyond such opposites
as imperfect and perfect
and notions of a saved or a lost,
beyond any ordeal?
I saw the Lord with the eye of my heart,
and said, ‘Who art Thou?’
‘Thou,’ came reply.
Thus Perceval, recalling the Grail,
imperfectly. Mindful that the where
and when and why of it
accounts for little enough.
Like knowing the thousand-and-one names,
while as for the Named….
