Wednesday, June 29, 2011

I Dig for You, God, Like Treasure

Landscape at Auvers in the Rain

My hands are bloody from digging.
I lift them, hold them open in the wind,
so they can branch like a tree.

Reaching, these hands would pull you out of the sky
as if you had shattered there,
dashed yourself to pieces in some wild impatience.

What is this I feel falling now,
falling on this parched earth,
softly,
like a spring rain?

From The Book of Hours II, 34

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