The Guide Signs Quotes

“Light's Interrupted Amplitude


All summer connotations fill this light,

a symmetry of different scales—the site

of fibrous silence, the velvet lace

of iris, alders the moon can ignite.

One feels the amplitude of grief, the pace

of oscillating stars, power in place

where time has crossed and left a breathy stain.

A body needs the weight and thrust of grace.

I want to parse the logic, spin and domain,

the structure mourning will allow, the grain

of certainty in two estates, the dance

of perfect order, flowing toward its plane.

That bird you see has caught a proper stance,

unfaithful to its measure, a pert mischance

of divination on the move, the trace

of sacred darkness true to light's advance.”
― Jay Wright, The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two