TOWN OF THE DEATH OF SIN

What is sin?
You asked.
The moon stung past us.
All at once I saw you.
Just drop sin and go.
Black as a wind over the forests.

--Anne Carson

"Like Marguerite Porete she expresses a need to render back to God what God has given to her, that is, the self:

We possess nothing in this world other than the power to say 'I'. This is what we must yield up to God. (GG, 71; PG, 35)

And like Marguerite Porete she pictures this yielding as a sort of test:

God gave me Being in order that ( Read more... )