ABLAZE IN THE COSMIC LIGHT

             by

    Donald Koozer

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In an era of cookie cutter poets who are thematically homogenous and morally ambiguous, Donald Koozer is, obviously without conscious intent, a maverick who harkens back to Donne and the Metaphysicals. Since the Romantic revolution, there have been few mainstream poets who have made spirituality—not religion, but the knowings that underlie the great faiths—their subject. Flame A blustery wind blows through the pine and acacia trees. Rain and thunder roar and crash against the house. In the midst of the tempest— the deep Stillness. And abiding within the Stillness— the Untainted Visitor. It fills the house and the sky with a sound the ear cannot detect, and I know we are born to be a flame, bathed in the light of Its inviolable radiance. Koozer writes, without affectation about coming to terms with aging, cultural decay, of moments of gnosis. Rooted in observations of the natural world, these poems are spiritual without being religious; inspirational without being preachy and the observations offered are worth serious considerFlame A blustery wind blows through the pine and acacia trees. Rain and thunder roar and crash against the house. In the midst of the tempest— the deep Stillness. And abiding within the Stillness— the Untainted Visitor. It fills the house and the sky with a sound the ear cannot detect, and I know we are born to be a flame, bathed in the light of Its inviolable radiance.ation. —David Ross, Editor City Primeval