519: Knowledge
"Knowledge"
Stephen Dunn
Some things like stones yield
only their opacity,
remain inscrutably themselves.
To the trained eye they offer their age,
some small planetary news.
Which suggests the world
becomes more mysterious, not less,
the more we know.
God knows is how we begin a sentence
when we refuse to acknowledge what we know.
Gravitas is ( Read more... )
Stephen Dunn
Some things like stones yield
only their opacity,
remain inscrutably themselves.
To the trained eye they offer their age,
some small planetary news.
Which suggests the world
becomes more mysterious, not less,
the more we know.
God knows is how we begin a sentence
when we refuse to acknowledge what we know.
Gravitas is ( Read more... )
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