Trust: A Poem

February 8, 2023
Glenn Hughes
Creative & Poetry

is a faith in the fact of the body,
the fact to be entered and known

until body and impulse
are coherent for love,

and steadfast breathing a word
of permission, a word come to tell

of a sweetness that passes understanding,
made ours and kissable.

Glenn Hughes

Glenn Hughes (1951-2024) was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at St. Mary’s University in Texas. He was author of numerous books, most recently From Dickinson to Dylan: Visions of Transcendence in Modernist Literature (Missouri, 2020). He was also co-editor, with Charles R. Embry, of The Eric Voegelin Reader: Politics, History, Consciousness (Missouri, 2017).

Trust: A Poem

is a faith in the fact of the body,
the fact to be entered and known

until body and impulse
are coherent for love,

and steadfast breathing a word
of permission, a word come to tell

of a sweetness that passes understanding,
made ours and kissable.

Glenn Hughes

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is a faith in the fact of the body, the fact to be entered and known

until body and impulse are coherent for love,

and steadfast breathing a word of permission, a word come to tell

of a sweetness that passes understanding, made ours and kissable.

Glenn Hughes

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is a faith in the fact of the body,
the fact to be entered and known

until body and impulse
are coherent for love,

and steadfast breathing a word
of permission, a word come to tell

of a sweetness that passes understanding,
made ours and kissable.