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


Jane Hirshfield, ed., Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women. - The Mengeldichten (Poems in Couplets) 25-29


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

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

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

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