Hail, sunbeam, full of rays!
   I feel like Gabriel;
            I name thee.
      I don’t call you into existence:
         I lack such power, but
                                    I name thee.

Would I know you without a name?
   I would feel warmth,
      but never know the warmer.

Yet now with your name…
                                     I conceive.

You are born to me,
      and your name shall be sunlight.

   Sun:
      I know where you came from,
         that you left your home in the heavens.

   Light:
      You ceased to be known as hydrogen.
                           E=MC2
         You became other
            so that you might visit me here.

I also know—
   because I know your name—
      that you are still in some sense hydrogen.
                          MC2=E

Warm upon my aging skin,
   less pliant than it was at 25,
   less brittle than it will be at 80,

         I contemplate you:

            Back and forth forever:
                  Wave and particle,
                          E=MC2

          communicatio idiomatum.

   I wonder that…

                  I am,

                                    you are.

How can this be?

                                    The Lord is with me.

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