From “Reparations” in Franz Wright’s “East Boston, 1966”

The forgiveness! I know it will be freely offered or it won’t, and that is […]

David Zahl / 8.16.11

The forgiveness! I know it
will be freely offered
or it won’t, and that is all—
and no one may bestow it
on himself.
If it is to come
it will come of itself like a separate
being,
a mystery, working
unseen as a wind causes still
leaves or water to move once again.
And hide me in the shadow of Your wings.

Let the heart be moved again.

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