No one knows the hour
when the trump resounds:
the voice of jackhammers
crying out in the wilderness.
Prepare ye the way of the Lord!
for God will excavate the earth
(leveling plain of hill and vale)
as though by crane will lower heav'n
upon the one foundation laid.
Lo, God’s Kingdom is a brownfield project--
the old lot off highway east-of-Eden
made the future site of New Jerusalem.
