Primary Wonder
Days pass when I forget the
mystery.
Problems insoluble and problems offering
their own ignored
solutions
jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber
along with a
host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing
their colored clothes; cap and
bells.
And then
once more the quiet mystery
is present to me, the
throng's clamor
recedes: the mystery
that there is anything, anything at
all,
let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything,
rather than void: and
that, O Lord,
Creator, Hallowed One, You still,
hour by hour sustain
it.
~ Denise Levertov
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