Golgonooza Poem by Frank Avon

Napoleonic blockades,
Luddite protests,
Corn Laws & Gagging Acts:

it was an era of poverty
and desolation, loss
and loneliness,

only Catherine was there
to clothe him with her care
and bathe in his inspiration.

Out of the abyss,
as from Milton's 'L'Allegro'
a Lark arose

mounting on wings of light
'into the Great Expanse, '
vibrating with 'effluence Divine'

and Milton himself descended
into the tarsus of his left foot,
not unlike the Great Comet of 1811,

And with the labor of Los
a new Jerusalem he built.


* * * * *

The Zoas of his visions
were states of Humankind,
Humanity Divine,

their lovely Emanations
unloosed at last,
their Spectres forgiven,

and Golgonooza
the city of Art and Manufacture
lies at the heart of London,

Albion will arise,
his fourfold vision restored.
Paradise.

'And all that has existed
in the space of six thousand years /
Permanent & not Lost...

'& every little act, /
Word, work, & wish...
all remaining still.'

all
still