tighten to nothing

 

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All things
are too small
to hold me,
I am so vast 

In the Infinite
I reach
for the Uncreated
I have
touched it,
it undoes me
wider than wide 
Everything else
is too narrow
You know this well,
you who are also there

Tighten
to nothing
the circle
that is
the world's things 
Then the Naked 
circle
can grow wide,
enlarging,
embracing all


—Hadewijch, l or ll (13th Century), 
Jane Hirshfield version
Women in Praise of the Sacred

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