Call You Grass

Call you grass

call you wind-bent slender grass

say you are full of grace

and grown by the river

Say what country

say what river

say what colour

Tell where is the clock

in the rose's face

tell where are the speared hands

bending the fences over

Call you loving in whatever room

in orchards on seas

knowing not whom you leave

whom you pass

who reaches after

Call you falling before a strange ark

beads and wedding band asunder

knowing not who watches and grieves

behind his glory wings

Claim you now

for blood for kingdom for love

Tell the collapsed belly of Mary

tell the limbs hanging so sadly over

Claim you

Claim you in my father's name

Call you grass