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I'm going to read two
more poems from this book.

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And then I'm going to try
out on you two recent poems.

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This poem is "On a
Theme by Thomas Merton."

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And that's its title.

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"Adam, where are you?

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God's hands palpate
darkness, the void

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that is Adam's
inattention, his confused

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attention to
everything impassioned

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by multiplicity, his despair.

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Multiplicity, his despair.

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God's hands enacting blindness.

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Like a child at a barbaric
fairgrounds, noise, lights,

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the violent odors,
Adam fragments himself.

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The whirling rides.

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Fragmented Adam stares.

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God's hands unseen.

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The whirling rides dazzle.

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The lights blind him.

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Fragmented.

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He is not present to himself.

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God suffers the void
that is his absence."

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