WHAT ELSE SEARCHES THE WORD FOR

WHAT ELSE SEARCHES THE WORD FOR . . .

What else,
searches the word for
in the sediment of the verse
if not for the impalpable
—which exists
just as the water of the river
escapes the hand
but learns its limits in the jar,
conserves its form
and refreshes
as sometimes does
a poem.

GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT, BELGIUM-SPAIN
From “In the Stream of time, Meditations in the Himalayas”