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Transgression, 2

This tearing apart, over which supreme love places the bond of
supreme union, echoes perpetually across the universe in the
midst of the silence, like two notes, separate yet melting into
one, like pure and heart-rending harmony.
Simone Weil

The Eternal:

“A subtle creature of light casts a shadow

and one

imprinted with our divine image

reaches beyond self

crosses the botanical boundary.”

The reaching hand

disturbs the purposeful equilibrium
of the knowledge tree,

teeth rupture the fruit’s skin
as if it were a jewelweed pod, it scatters

the force of the safeguarded event.

The violent nascence of worlds

becomes real though mitigated –
in the making of nations,

in the birth of a child –
the twinned cries of labor and of life,

faint echoes.