Theology
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In the low woods, in the old dreamof the old, hard land's dreamof its own darkness turning darker,and so returned to the first darkin its first time, the past not past,I am not now by being here,nor will I be, but then; I amfor a moment dust of the first Godin the woods in the first dream and the darkof that dream which I remember and reachby remembering and being here,and once and many times againI fell out, out of the dream,because I wanted to love my loveand even lost from the dream I found her,for she was in the holy dreamand loving her means I will die,which is sad, though love is worth the fix,so when I pray I say to the God,Old Man, I understand the dream. [End Page 128]
Maurice Manning teaches at Indiana University and in the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. His fourth book of poetry, The Common Man, was published in 2010 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). His other books include Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions (Yale University Press, 2001), A Companion for Owls (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004) and Bucolics (Mariner Books, 2007). In 2009 Manning was awarded the Hanes Poetry Prize by The Fellowship of Southern Writers. maumanni@indiana.edu
