Ecstatic ekphrasis akin to the
Transformation of the Eucharist,
The transfusion of spirit and flesh
Into one layered, lunging body
Reveries of unraveling constancy
Cannot connect us to the
Insubstantial plane--its
Properties convex to the mind:
Consubstantiated time
Wagner's dream of fusion and
Transfusion remains to be
Dreamed, hanging as it does
Like a gallows, waiting
For the hangman to pull the rope,
For the nail to find the cross.