Monday, February 4, 2019

Melissa Hager's "Revelation 2" after Robert Eades


Robert Eades's provocative elevator room installation is the subject of "Revelation 2" by Melissa Hager. She shared the poem at the Hickory Museum of Art tour on October 13, 2018.  The next Art of Poetry Catawba Valley tour of an art institution will be announced in the coming weeks. Photo courtesy of Hickory Museum of Art.

REVELATION 2
By Melissa Hager
after elevator room installation by Robert Eades

Focus on God’s beauty 
even descending into the abyss. 
Every roll, dip and sway experienced 
is within Alpha and Omega’s mighty hand.

He didn’t create the metal tube, engines, 
within which to plunge 
into the storm. He didn’t compel 
you buy the ticket to ride. 

Yahweh gives a world with water, 
food, air, resources for shelter. 
As His gifts are depleted, 
to grant the greed of Adam 

and Eve’s offspring, the snake 
gets the last bite. 
But the devil too will perish
in an unsustainable world. 


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