Poetry

22 RESULTS

Dividing Zero

Dividing one makes two, and so on. But dividing zero? “Nothing can come of nothing,” Lear laments—and yet, as you know, God’s signature’s here. Where zero was, is one, then two: two lights, moon and sun; then man and woman; two brothers, two kingdoms— then one, one...

Annunciation

Deep within the clay, and O my people very deep within the wholly earthen compound of our kind arrives of one clear, star-illumined evening a spark igniting once again the tender of our lately banked noetic fire. She burns but she is not consumed. The dew lights...

Annunciation

Then let it be done, said the girl to the blinding visitor, according to your word. What else was she going to say right hand held out as if to ward off a blow. So the Word became flesh, for nine human months. And with her still-childlike body, she uttered...