Ascension by Ed Pacht

Greetings from soggy New Hampshire. After a period of computer problems and a period of wild weather, this is my first atempt at posting here. It will say that it was posted by Albion (I don't know how to change that), but this is mine. That said, here follows a poem for Ascension Day:

Ascension
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Ascent,
a going up,
into the clouds,
and out of sight.
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Ascent,
ascending,
rising,
going,
where?
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Ascent,
ascending,
rising,
to the sky?
Not there.
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Ascending
to the heavens?
Yes,
but where are they?
And can you point,
describe,
or indicate their place?
Or tell me where they are,
or where they’re not?
You can’t.
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Ascent,
ascending,
going from this earth,
going to a place
that is no place,
and to a time
that is no time,
infinity,
infinitely outside
the universe of place and time,
beyond all human thoughts,
or imaginations of the mind,
outside,
beyond all knowing,
beyond all finding,
beyond. . . .
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Ascending there,
ascending where there is no where,
ascending into everywhere,
ascending far beyond yet near,
ascending here.

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Ascending,
sending Holy Spirit,
in the Spirit present,
present on the blessed altars,
present in the hearts of men,
present even in the house of sin,
present,
never absent,
never gone,
present.
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Present now,
and yet He is to come,
and in His presence we await
the coming of the ever-present Lord
who is,
and was,
and is to come.
Amen.