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Liturgy
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Liturgy From music I bore some gold-stone Ans, but they sank away through the wafBed shallows. From nature I gleaned some hope of rice, but it edged deep away in sunk stone bowls. So then I asked for bowls and Ans, asked a hand that could startle them back into Anning the shallows, gilding, rounding; I guessed a hand that could gather bowls open. When I had asked whom I had guessed, she sent my asking out; and over and over she sends it back. Over and over it answers me; over and over it answers, as she gives it, in the speech of Ans and in the speech of bowls. 28 Originally published in the Yale Lit (summer 1978). ...