Friday, June 30, 2023

The Wonder of the Imperfect

 

Nothing that I do is finished
 so I keep returning to it
 lured by the notion that I long
 to see the whole of it at last
 completed and estranged from me

 but no the unfinished is what
 I return to as it leads me on
 I am made whole by what has just
 escaped me as it always does
 I am made of incompleteness
 the words are not there in words

 oh gossamer gossamer breath
 moment daylight life untouchable
 by no name with no beginning 

what do we think we recognize

 --W.S. Merwin
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