Hourglasses and Sanctuaries

 

Prayer
,
a grain of sand in the sea.

Unless your hands
are quarreling
yourself possible,

form something.
……………Begin.
Keep silent.

 

Prompted by day 13 of Grace’s 28 Days of Self Love challenge. This is a blackout poem, created on page 67 of the book “I Say Sunrise,” by Talbot Mundy (1949). My favorite thing about this book, which I found in an old used bookshop, is the inscription in the front. Who are Walt, Ruth, and Rosetta? What was their connection? And how does one get access to their “magic universe?” 

 

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