Monday, September 6, 2010

And into the...

Ecstasy affords/ the occasion and expediency determines the form. Marianne Moore


I have seen the fish
leap out of the water

and through the fisher’s
wide-meshed net, the one

he knitted himself
in faith with his mind’s

habits, his steadi-
ness of hand, which, like

Peter’s rock, have had
a church built on them.

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