A Quiet Sonata

A quiet sonata
Ivory keys
Heart and sound
Descriptions in
Glorious Night
Sloping and writ
For shaking
For watch--
Breaking, lasting
For making--
Transposed into deed

A sleeping story
Played with
Hands, lightened
Pure
Escaping from view
Forever and more
For buds
For bloom-
Undone, born
For thought-
Alone, exquisite

Sit now and show
A quiet sonata,
Only and true.

An angel's dawn
Was rising, came
To Earth a king:
A meadow star
Obliging, and all
The pardons sing:
God, prayer, holy
Life and Born the
One True King,
My sin to bed, a light above
I will reckon anything.