Of Being
I know this happiness
is provisional:
the looming presences –
great suffering, great fear –
withdraw only
into peripheral vision:
but ineluctable this shimmering
of wind in the blue leaves:
this flood of stillness
widening the lake of the sky:
this need to dance,
this need to kneel:
this mystery:
– Denise Levertov
Wow. Just incredible. I’ll be noodling this one for days…
Thank you.
love this. thank you. ‘this mystery’…if only i could embrace it with more trust and grace.
She packs such a punch.