The Hastily Assembled Angel Considers His Own Foreknowing ( 3 )
The hastily assembled angel wandered
The desert hidden in the pillar of
Cloud in the day and in the pillar of
Fire in the night and as he wandered he
Asked himself whether sometimes as he wandered
He asked himself whether he really could
Be said to wander since he after all
Could see through time which was even better for
Seeing where he was going than seeing through space
In the day he was a darkness in the cloud
Like rain and in the night he was a darkness
In the fire like God and day and night he won-
dered why he had been given gifts even God
Hadn’t been given or no even God had-
n’t given Themselves or no no even God did-
n’t have and who he wondered ever could
Give God a gift except he knew he was
Allowed to see through time because he was
Not God and could be wrong and saw through time
With many-chambered eyes all things that might be
And God would see only the one thing that would
Is that the one gift he wondered That free people
Give God uncertainty he wondered in
The cloud as the crowd followed him or followed
The darkness in the pillar though it was
The only flaw in the pillar they could see
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