The Greatest of These
Authoritative, bevelled, and complete
The language of the King James Bible speaks.
It knows, conflation at its height, replete
With meaning and beyond, displays antiques
Behind pure glass, antiques of beauty like
Clean gilded china, glazed with clarity.
At times it bids with trueness as a spike
Inside the ribs. It speaks of charity
Or else of women who need men to mount
Them, fill them with their issue like a horse.
The message comes with language made to count
Inside the heart like echoes from the source
Of certainty. A diamond word or phrase
Cuts through our noise, as if hot carats blaze.