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Thursday, February 16, 2017

Pondering: Nearness

    
Art by Gwen Meharg


    Draw Near
    by Scott Cairns


        προσέλθετε


For near is where you’ll meet what you have wandered

far to find. And near is where you’ll very likely see

how far the near obtains. In the dark katholikon

the lighted candles lent their gold to give the eye

a more than common sense of what lay flickering

just beyond the ken,



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The Greek word προσέλθετε translates as attend.

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