First Sight
When was it that we first glimpsed God?
Was it in the red, wrinkled smallness
in the half light?
Or later in the strong feet
striding across the hills
which a few aeons ago he had called into being?
Or with a strange thrill
in the hand which reached out to touch some
and make it whole?
Or in a sudden contact
with those searching eyes,
Splitting men’s heart’s like pea pod’s to pour…

