3:16 [For]
For
who hands o-
ver their on-
ly begot-
ten any-
thing to this
white-teethed world
if god so
loved I nev-
er knew him
From The Night Angler. Copyright © 2018 by Geffrey Davis. Used with the permission of BOA Editions.
As the Pome:
I could ask my petaled voice to cup its first and last notes against the hive’s collapse.
we won’t tell you where it lies, as in time we might need the minor intimacy of that secret.