What is the use
In driving a stick into mud
Until all of it is in mud?
Derive nothing from this, ask
Nothing of me. I arrive with
No offerings.
My hand, here, behold it
Holding closed a hole in mud.
This is infinite grace.
Patience, please, what I say
Has come all the way through me,
The water is icy, unmoving.
Patience, if only in an act
I perform repeatedly, will
Drive this stick repeatedly
In mud, at odd times utter phrases.
(in Peaches and Bats 1)
