Saturday, October 5, 2024

The Moon Sings to the Stream


Philip Gladstone, "The Twenty"


I am the unity on high,

I am the multiple in the pond.

looking up to me from the stream

my image, my double.


I am the truth on high,

I am the fabrication in the pond

looking up to me from the stream

my image, in its fated deception.


Above--I am enwrapped in silence,

whispering, singing, in the pond.

On high I am divine,

in the stream, I am the prayer.


--Leah Goldberg (1911-1970)

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