Thursday Poem

Om — after Rumi

The great hum
you hear
is the universe
doing its work.
Listen:
it is echoed
in your heart

but

I cannot read this book the earth
I cannot reach this peak the sky
I cannot plumb this well my heart
I cannot fully open “I”

by Johanna Jordan
from Small Poems, 2006


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