Speech Of Angels
/There is more to language than speech.
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Shifts of language
Clumsy floating variables
To share the totality of nature
And the stuff of heaven
The interference and
Meddling gossip of media
Hurl pillows and panic
Congregations of prime-time cannibals
Selling pharmaceuticals
The circus improbability
Of pageant winners
Defined as statesmen
Preach solemnly with
Thick lips and slender hands
There is no greater eloquence
Or compelling cognitive thunder
Than the unspoken visions of the dead
We shared our touch
And now it is more
A promenade through burden and joy
A triumph of life via death
Where the designs of our natural world
Flower
Not in inexpensive words
But sacred bouquets of silence
Our speech in thought and vision
Forever defined and everlasting in the now
And the success of this perfect language
Transformed to the sharing of infinity
I see Nonno with his grey vest
And white t-shirt
Why does he smile and not laugh
To the little boy looking up?
His angel assures and articulates
His heart in mine
I become the answer to every young riddle
That surrounds the bewilderment of a child
His silence is not obscure
And it is not finite
It is sweet and shatters complications
In early growing days
I shared a hard firmament
With Mama and Papá
Scraped and suffered necessary treaties
Endured the venue of voice
And were prejudiced by its sound
Near their corporal ends
The material world
Changed the rules of speech
To terrible and hurtful noises
But the unmistakable dialogue
Of their newer angels
Rescued me from pain and delivered us
To a pact of acceptance in simplicity of love
Now I talk to Mama
She tells me Giulio I was not afraid
You saw the cancer mask my face
It cannot interfere with us now
Or forevermore
Papá’s angel does not have tremors
He still shaves with a straight razor
Has a garden that everyone admires
He speaks as before in stuttering excitement
And I am glad as these are his ways
I recognize my beloved father
When he explains to his friends
“This is my son”
In absence they are not silent
I cannot miss my angels
And they cannot miss me
Find your angels
For they have been waiting
And wait for you still
By Giulio Magrini
From: United States
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