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“He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”

(Col 1:7)

White pebble
in my hand 

you are fiercely
impenetrable

will it always be
a matter of surface
with you and me—

I am learning
to live with you 

but your language
is beyond me

beyond my thinking's
noisy machinery

beyond memory's frontier
off imagination's edge— 

I have been promised
another white stone

bearing a new name
known only to me

will it too
be impenetrable 

I am beginning
to live with you

I am beginning
to see 

J. Janda