Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Midweek Poem 3: An overspilling jar

[Of all that God has shown me]



Of all that God has shown me
I can speak just the smallest word,
Nor more than a honey bee
Takes on his foot
From an overspilling jar.
------------Mechtild of Magdeburg
----------(tr. Jane Hirshfield) 

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