Pay attention to this poet, informed by the tradition of Christian poetry and Catholic Humanism.
Garth Greenwell
As what gleams in a bowl half filled with water
in the center of which floats
a mirror the size of a coin, placed
to catch the strongest cast of the sun
is not the sun, however certainly it seems it, so
what rises in you -- as though
toward what has crafted it, what, having crafted, has
called -- toward what you persist
in thinking of as God is not
God, is, rather, pride, and, as pride,
as distant from what has longed you
as is this light that warms us
only so much as we can stand
from what first birthed it, what, striking, would --
as practiced hands de-vein the prone, split
bodies of shrimp -- unshadow us, un-
psalm.
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