The Unanswering Correspondences

Intensification of compassion; extraordinary; incalculable;

Grandeur hurls us down -

Tears blind us -

Sparrows! lions! crags! meadows! seas!

Inexhaustible; wounding; unimaginable; illimitable;

This imperishable grandeur!

The heart breaks - tears blind us -

Immensurable; unfathomable; implacable; unsayable;

We cry our animal grief -

Compassion blinds our eyes -

Each blade

Of grass, leaf of tree,

Each

Feather floating to earth,

Is a signature of love

And sorrow.

O sparrows, lions and

Seas! tears blind us.