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The Clearing

by Lêdo Ivo

What does God want
with so many stars
and black holes
in infinite space?

What is God’s plan
on rainy nights
when the wind blows
and topples the flowers?

In this dark empire
the gift of uncertainty
follows me through the forest.

Maybe I dreamed
the clearing
I saw in the trees.

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