ext_225760 ([identity profile] drabheathen.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] greatpoetry 2013-02-09 02:08 am (UTC)

Utensil by A.R. Ammons

How does the pot pray:
wash me, so I gleam?

prays, crack my enamel:
let the rust in.

*** also***

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

- Leonard Cohen

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