A Large Silence

three poems

A LARGE SILENCE

god must have a large ear

to hear

the green-bird and zither-song

and all little children

playing

god must have a large eye

to measure

the size of pain

and yet give a speck of his eye

to every child

god must have a large hand

to carve in watery waste

and blades of grass

a radiant world

god must have a large silence

in his house

to recognize a maelstrom of blood

and say nothing.