Poetry Friday: MURANO CHANDELIER

MURANO CHANDELIER

      Written in the Pastel Room of Ca 'Rezzonico Palazzo, Venice

Brilliant as sun-shocked ice,

angels leap from a Murano chandelier—

     with wings

          spun of crystal lace

          beating stars, beating snow—

     with wings

          blown with flowered bells

          ringing fierce, ringing bright—

     with wings

          incessant with swallows

          swooping joy, swooping now—

as each beat

God’s heart

an angel born

to shout the light aloft.

Dia Calhoun

June 2012 Venice