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Poems

THE WAITING UPON

From the July 1975 issue of The Christian Science Journal


A need is only the space shaped
to receive a precise
dispensation of grace.

Inkling it is of an exact fit:
not light diffused,
not formless gift

but substance scaled unerringly
to match some further
seek for it.

Not vacuum but transparency:
this clear of air—
this wait in me

for Providence, in perfect play,
once more to brim
a pilgrim's way:

as waters, welled from boundlessness,
flood to its full
a deepened course.

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