When it's over, I want to say:all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was the bridegroomtaking the world into my arms.I don't want to end up simplyhaving visited this world. from New & Selected Poems
01554 – Not Just a Visitor
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When it's over, I want to say:all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was the bridegroomtaking the world into my arms.I don't want to end up simplyhaving visited this world. from New & Selected Poems
As the parable of the Ten Virgins was about the happiness of the bridegroom at his wedding, so this one is about the ebullience of the lord's joy at throwing his money around. It is the theme of the divine party again, the party that lurks beneath the surface of...