YOU ARE MY HORIZON III (detail) Painting by Kevin Macneil Brown, acrylic on canvas, 2010)
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The angel arrived
having the mass
and volume and
hugeness of a mountain range,
While at the same
time the weight and shape and distance
of an entire cloud-massed sky,
and then
The shore-destroying beauty
of breaking
waves.
And the angel’s message,
silent, was:
Listen;
Wait;
And again,
-completely-
Listen.
-Kevin Macneil Brown