Your lease on pain
Has expired
You have crossed the great divide
Over the abyss of voided words
You are now in heaven
There is no space in heaven
Everything is everywhere
You are here where
There is
No domination of the body's
Five kingdoms
Wisdom has wiped away
The stain of knowledge
The gauze and gossip of history
Have been removed
You are part of God's memory
Light begetting light
God greets you
He speaks only in vowels
He tells you about
Your new neighborhood
Infinity
Philip Kolin has published four books of poetry, including Deep Wonder: Poems (Grey Owl, 2000); Wailing Walls (Wind & Water, 2006), and A Parable about Women (Yazoo River Press, 2009) and more than 200 poems in such journals as Michigan Quarterly Review, South Carolina Review, Christianity and Literature, Anglican Thological Review, and the Penwood Review, which awarded him their “Editor’s Choice” award in 2009. Philip is publisher and editor of Vineyards: A Journal of Christian Poetry and is a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi.