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Tears wet the sea colour sky

(Ambergris Caye, Belize, July 2011)

Exquisite longed, ocean’s glass unctions

Crystalline spumes rhythms

Breathing zephyrous, hard tarpaulin blue peeling sky, butter sun

Clouds stamp white pain

Moon moon moon’s husk from Caracol’s heaven hung

Minaret gulls trill morning prayers up dreaming cream sand 

This sensual fronded heat, residue of creations

How the universe first loved.

The destroyer of worlds speaks with one thousand mouths.

I am nailed not to a cross but to time.

My holy see, I return.

I know why Jesus wept.

Robert Jacoby’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in numerous literary journals over the past four decades. He is the author of the novels There Are Reasons Noah Packed No Clothes and Dusk and Ember, and the memoir Never Stop Dancing.