I AM THAT I AM
Josh Hagedorn
October 1, 2001
I AM THAT I AM
Josh Hagedorn
and the bush burning, and the desert rolled out
as parchment beneath his smoldering feet.
He went back to the distant city and the glazed eyes of men
baked into their bodies. The flies igniting mid-air,
he stood in gleaming chambers where his voice, stuttered,
burnt to ashes in the Pharaoh's crackling ears.
And with the dust stirred into chirping swarms, the rivers
pumping blood through arid soil, he realized
how restless were the shapes of things; unsteady,
flickering, like embers strewn across a mind.
His life: a shadow in a field of glaring light,
a corpse of coal, compressed, held helpless, being drawn along
the boundless blazing white: longing for
the Word, the wound cut through a searing fog.
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