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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.

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