Explorations Quotes

“At first sight
Of those bodies,
Like mine
Or any other--

No: like mine
But intact--why
Did those men,
Asway that entire day,

Seadrunk
On parched land,
Not think:
The Lord is Grand.

Why was that riddle
Not something
They knelt to? Why,
Instead, did they take it as a sign

That their want
Should lead them?
The riddle
Doesn't go away.”
― Tracy K. Smith, The Body's Question