Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MONOCLES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG


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First Line: Reducing the universe
Last Line: I prefer to try the other.
Subject(s): Eyes; God; Universe


Reducing the universe
to one round view,
and terming it religion,
is truly beyond my capacity:
compressing one's view,
like a hoop,
for other folk to be whipped through --
squeezing the rim so tight
that not even a gnat
could manage the hole --
requires more strength
than I have the pincers for:
beholding what one is pleased
to call, God,
and greeting Him exclusively
through the monocle
of one's own righteousness --
that eye
suffers astigmatism;
I prefer to try the other.





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