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Arts & CulturePoetryJanuary 2022 issue

Because my hands are small compared to God’s

Jane ZwartDecember 16, 2021

it is easier to trust God with worlds than with sons

whose hands fit in mine. I mean to reduce the divine
as I would a fraction: dividing life and afterlife

by life, but instead I raise the voice that asks
What comes before infinity, everything or nothing?

to the power of an answer God does not give
because my hands are small compared to God’s.

Jane Zwart

Jane Zwart teaches English at Calvin University. Her poems have previously appeared in Poetry, North American Review, TriQuarterly and other journals.

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