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Poems

Desert Reflections

From the May 1965 issue of The Christian Science Journal


I John 3:3
"Even as he is pure"

Listen! Can you hear,
Hear the voice,
Hear it clear
Here in wilderness?

How hear?
Hear a voice among these voices,
Empty echoes chattering,
Clattering in desert
bone brittle, dust dry?

Search! Can you see,
See the center,
Focal point of be—
Epicenter of you, of me?

How hear? How see?
How tell in-turn from out-view,
Discern the point of All
Where all is pointless
as sparrow's fall?

Note the pattern,
Fix on the star.
Calculate infinity
From where you are.

To search it out,
Thrust deeply in.
Outleap beyond,
Stand still within.

"As he is," you, we, are.

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