————Δημιουργία χωρίς τέλος

 

What? You had thought creation to be
            a one-time act concluded? You
were given to imagine the kosmós
            complete, or in any case moving
toward an eventual, conclusive end? Bummer.

In our modest beginning—wisdom
           avers—we just might witness as well
the nature of an end, an outcome;
            in our beginning, still, our end
might open unto apprehension.

The God without beginning—being
            our beginning—is surely our end,
which makes our end an endless one,
            continuing ever, just as he
continues, and we in him continue.

Partaking of himself, we can’t help
            but become, like him, eternal,
and endlessly more like him, ongoing.
            Neither does this vertiginous journey
conclude, neither does it fail. Proceed.

 

 

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Scott Cairns’s fifteenth book, Against Certainty, is forthcoming from Slant Books. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Denise Levertov Award.

 

 

 

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