Love Letters to the Divine

Julian Lynn’s collection of ecstatic verse, Divine Fruit, is a rare commodity in current writing: love letters to the divine.  The author explains in the preface that this work is created from “a seat of devotion and in gratitude toward the Divine Creative Force…” We are told that this poetry will be about “Union” and the experience of Oneness; but along the way we will experience “The Face of God” though the incredible multiplicity of our world.  There is room for multiplicity within unity.

Lynn’s poems are necessarily erotic.  Her experience of the divine is close and intimate, so the language of erotic love is the perfect medium to express these encounters: “I want to touch You / The way You embraced Me.”  Elsewhere, God comes and goes like a friend and lover in the poem While Napping: “Breaking into my fouled / And fractured bones, / God’s touch bound me / Side to side, top to bottom / Repairing my vessel.” The poet’s voice pleads with the Divine for the relief a lover can provide: “I almost died / waiting for You / Cast me / reignited / into the where / of Your willing.”

Lynn’s powerful and intimate poems are startling in their clarity, steadfast in their vision, and a delight to read; she discovers the Divine in our everyday moments, and she shapes and forms the mundane into rapture.