Good morning misery,
goodbye belief,
good Lord the light
cutting across the lake
so long gone
to ice—
There is an under, always,
through which things still move, breathe,
and have their being,
quick coals and crimsons
no one need see
to see.
Good Lord the Light
Christian Wiman
Christian Wiman is the author of My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer (FSG 2013) and He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art (FSG 2018). His most recent books of poems are Hammer is the Prayer and Survival is a Style, both from FSG. He received the Aiken Taylor Prize in Modern Poetry from the Sewanee Review in 2016.