The Book of Kells

By Daniel Janeiro - Pentecost/Assumption 2011

 

 

In Dublin, kept from dust,
The Book of Kells rests vaulted under glass,
A musty coloring book to the endless mass
Who, lost

In labored labrynths,
Follow the dreamt-of color-tainted quill
That prinks the vellum carefully until
The tints

Make out of cramped details
Gargoyle angels in a knotted form,
Or gorgon-headed dogs, chasing a storm
Of tails,

Bridging by symmetries,
Like some leafed, holy, clover overpass,
An image prophesying bright stained glass
To these

Words, recalling how
The world's own stains are bound by the bizarre
Entanglements of time to the strange here
And now.