canticle xxii : resurrection of the katts

The Apostle Paul writes in Romans 8:19, 21 : "For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God....because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God."

After the promised irruption of heaven into earth

and subsequent looting of the enemy's barrows,

imagine - the astounded hurtling of hawk, the disconcerted wonder of hen,

pup's amazement, astonished mule, kitten dumbfounded,

pipirit shocked! -

                                  And then, the heirs of God, cerement free,

parading the blue air. So great leviathan, cattle, creeping thing, each to its kind,

rise without burden, with the lords of the air,

to come to their City, and their names calling out, from the

Lamb's opening Book. 

(c) John Robert Lee from Canticles (2007)

(c) John Robert Lee - Photograph After the rain.