URIEL

URIEL (Angel of Poetry)

Uri’el

The Light of God

angel of the South.

Write his name on

the south side

of your desk.

Now you’re

facing North.

The letters

will change.

PHANUEL

The Face of God.

A presence,

mercifully behind

our irreverent eyes.

This is the back, then

the turning away

our faces wear

in a veil of light

like Moses wore

when he returned

from the mountain.

Somehow this was allowed,

to show the others

this turning away,

a mirror pointed

at Him unseen.

They say M’s veil 

“horned light.”

A call uncovering 

the naked air.

The pen is a type

of candle, like a stolen book

to copy quickly.

A pen is all copy.

Mirror. Twice.

They say Adam 

wrote a book

to help him forget,

a light that discovers the light.