Against interpretation / poem

I ask, swirls of Martian fire

Starlight melted in the sea

Grant me virgin eyes to see

Beauty as is, beauty born radiant

Against interpretation, beauty born free

What beauty is more sparkling, what more fragrant

Than joy unbridled, burning spear of light vagrant

I beseech you, with heart, mind, and sinew

Rain beauty upon me

Fall from heaven the choir of Galilee

Open the gates of Babylon

Part the sea of the Romans

Lower the ramparts oh Agamemnon

Climb the mountains of Illyria

Wreck the forts of Niani

And fall from heaven the reign of Apollo

I stand in the winter sunlight

Of a day baptised in frost

Writing a poem forthright

Adam draws before me

Using the colours of twilight