The Dominion Is Wonder

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You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;

you have put all things under their feet.

                                                                    —Psalm 8:6 (NRSV)

The dominion is wonder

and eye the king, the glassy orb

         on throne of flesh and bone

that partakes of the hour as if

         feasting on time, every season a victual,

a morsel of delight savoured

and then remembered.

No power, no lust in this,

         sheer appetite for the world,

the inescapable greens and blues,

         palettes of ether and water,

into which to dip the eye’s

         brush-tip, as if in broad stroke

the eye might possess the canvas the way

         a portrait does, face conjured

from out of cloth and wood.

His face, smoked mirror to our own.

~Sally Ito