Thursday, 8 August 2013

Poem from Klaus Høeck's collection 'Palimpsest'


FIELD HAND
(1985)

is god a cripple –
is god’s left hand an arti
ficial one he once

in a while unbuck
les and lays aside on a
fallen tree-trunk out

in the field to rest
for a bit in the midst of
his continued la

bours with creation –
does god show that much soli
darity with man?

To see the painting this poem refers to, go to here

1 comment:

  1. Well, He came as near as this: "Jesus therefore, being wearied with the way he had come, sat just as he was at the fountain", John 4: 6.

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