See, I Never Left my Hands of my Works

After A Line By Julian Of Norwich

How much descent, how down
this dove, this now
I know comes in the hush and how
arrived the night backs, summits grade,
the pent and meddlesome winds
shaken as from a purse take their place,
and sea stills.

If so,
if this low,
if inmost,

then I am hemmed and all beclothed,
even gross ghost, even nude decent,
even still sent.

 

This poem was originally published by Trinity House Review

M. Willett

Mischa Willett teaches English at Seattle Pacific University and is the author of Phases (Cascade Books, 2017)

https://www.mischawillett.com
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