THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM
Proverbs 9.-10
You have brought me so far.
.
I know so much. Names, verbs, images. My mind
overflows, a drawer that can't close.
.
Unscathed among the tortured. Ignorant parchment
uninscribed, light strokes only, where a scribe
tried out a pen.
.
I am so small, a speck of dust
moving across the huge world. The world
a speck of dust in the universe.
.
Are you holding
the universe? You hold
onto my smallness. How do you grasp it,
how does it not
slip away?
.
I know so little
.
You have brought me so far.
Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
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