Hello.+ Reading. 2 poems by Reznikoff

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Hi! I am new here but it seems like an excellent idea
to have a place to talk as Christians about reading
and to also get suggestions of what might be interesting
to look into oneself.
My name is Seraphim Sigrist but you knew that from my
livejournal name which is the same. The Seraphim is for
a Russian saint from the 19th century, it is an added on
name when I was ordained. My original and, so now middle
name I guess,is Joseph. My original middle name of Paul
kind of gets lost in the shuffle most times I guess.
Anyone is welcome to visit my journal and I will be happy
to exchange friends with you...

Lately I have been reading a couple of things, one on
the subject of the artist Wassily Kandinsky because I am
going to see his work at a New York museum on Saturday--
anyone in New York area want to joint the expedition?

and then poems of Charles Reznikoff. Here is one I
like and you may too.

"As I was wandering with my unhappy thoughts,
I looked and saw
that I had come into a sunny place,
familiar and yet strange.
“Where am I?” I asked a stranger. “Paradise.”
“Can this be Paradise?” I asked surprised,
for there were motor cars and factories.
“It is,” he answered. “This is the sun that shone on Adam once;
the very wind that blew upon him, too.” "

and here is one more,

"Scrap of paper
blown about the street,
you would like to be cherished, I suppose,
like a bank-note."

This last is not only true of pieces of paper but, also
I guess everyone we meet, plain or outwardly unattractive as
they may be, wishes and deserves to be respected for the
most humble is a bearer of the image of God. 'The least of
these my brethren' as it was said.

anyway these and I am yours
+Seraphim