So Graven

by Josephine Miles

Josephine Miles

Simplicity so graven hurts the sense.
The monumental and the simple break
And the great tablets shatter down in deed.

Every year the quick particular jig
Of unresolved event moves in the mind,
And there's the trick simplicity has to win.

From: 
Collected Poems 1930-83





Last updated February 11, 2023