Metaphysical
desire is a desire for
metaphysics: not
tonight, damp and chill.
The possibility of
something else, a hope
not of thought thinking
itself but of something more
real. Tomorrow we
come together so
to praise an altogether
other, fleshly love.
Wow! The delighted shock of the last line is the reader’s response to the poem’s and the poet’s atristry of surprise and insight that transcends thought to touch the depths and heights of reality and at the same time it is a response to the glorified body of the risen Christ and the change that the resurrection has effected for all humanity–suffering and death are not meaningless, nor is death the end, nor is the body to be fetishized or ignored. Reality is integrated in love, erotic and agapeic, self-giving and self-transforming. Alleluia.