Week 13: OPEN (guide)

Marsden Hartley

This World Awakes to Silence

                                from the Hebrew


This world awakes to silence
under night's blanket.

From far away I return to myself,
In the dark I look deeply within:
like the night, I, too, am wide,
and like it flow slowly
to infinity.

The pure silence
that lies beneath all life
seeps into me.

I'll rest in this silence,
apart from the labor of my days,
and a blue child will sleep in me,
and a goat with a necklace of stars.

                                               David Vogel

(translated by Peter Everwine)
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Note on choice of this poem: In these times, which demand action, how do we find the core from which to act with strength and conviction? Let's talk about this...