In “I’ve Seen God,” for instance, West bore witness both to the grandeur and to the profanation of divine creation. “I’ve seen him smile / In the several hues of a rainbow / I’ve felt his warm breath / In the mists / The sun sets up / From the plowed dirt / After the summer rain”; but God also stared out from “the gaunt eyes / Of a factory worker,” and West “heard him groan / From the hungry throats / Of miners’ children.”
