The Sound of one Poem Tapping
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God crosses through the thickness of the world to come to us.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall … every separation is a link.
Simone Weil
these poems are not for younot for me
but for one left behindor lost
as when a pilgrim enters a thicketwithout end
to cross the world
there are no gatesnor paths of egress for
this one whose breath I hearear cupped to the wall
who scratches graffition the other side
with pencil stub and shardsof glass
this one who when night fallshammers a signal code
rock in handthat chips away at blocks of stone
to this one I tap out wordsin reply
poems prayers [End Page 240]
Karl Plank is the J.W. Cannon Professor of Religion at Davidson College, Davidson, NC. His poetry has appeared in journals including Beloit Poetry Journal, New Madrid, Anglican Theological Review and in Poetry Daily. His teaching and research concern biblical and poetic intertextuality, contemplation and ethics, and modern Jewish literature and thought. kaplank@davidson.edu
