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Article: Wetlands nocturne.(Poem)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- March 8, 2005
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Wetlands nocturne
(Rhodoms Point, Big Colington Island)
You gave me time. And giving
that, like a master, a miser, gave away nothing.
You knew this all along. For
though you move in cycles and seasons,
you dwell beyond, outside of time and measure, beyond
the scope of words and reasons.
This is what you give, then: a center, a way
of being, that though it moves, lies beyond movement
the way the springs of a well rise
far below the moving waters of their ...