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Poems

HOW THE NEWS TRANSCENDS ALL OTHER NEWS

From the November 1974 issue of The Christian Science Journal


How words that issue
from the Word itself
must burn through! Must quite translate

syllable by syllable and phrase by phrase

this garbled globe, this blundering race
this whole preposterous, played-out masque

back into such first innocence of breath—
pre-dust, pre-Eden-swindle—that
all move as the unlapsed angels must

through infinite cycles of delight.

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