Look at what has been won
and wonder at the world
what is yet to win
and sanctify, in a world
less naughty
but no less expensive
a wild love ties lovers
over continents and coastlines
a wild lovers’ line
led by no fixed standard or star
from this peninsula
to an island I don’t know
of malabar and cinnabar, mountains
across seas and different oceans
a flight of souls
a dance of eyes darting
and fingers laughing on skin
a great and generous humour
it has to have
to land here
where it might have
anywhere
but for what is yet
to win and sanctify, what yet
cannot be bought or brought
but is to bring forth
in a world more joyful for the journey
of this union
of Ron and Jonty
look at what has been won
and wonder at a world
yet to win
through the sanctity
(angels and the saints
come out
why wouldn’t they?)
of wild loves, lives and
gay abandon
good friends, theatre, wine
and song, dance,
to what is and what it is
to be
by the lost faces that
gather around
who cannot be counted
but who count
riches, gifts, names
each one here names
and each one
brings
whose presence here is in
the golden audience of light
is in the hearing
the blessing of the hearing.
[on the occasion of Ron & Jonathon’s wedding,
17 March 2018]
