<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Idiot Psalm 12 </span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 20px;"><i>A psalm of Isaak, amid uncommon darkness</i></span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">O Being both far distant and most near,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> O Lover embracing all unlovable, O Tender</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Tether binding us together, and binding, yea</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> and tenderly, Your Person to ourselves,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Being both beyond our ken, and kindred, One</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> whose dire energies invest such clay as ours</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> with patent animation, O Secret One secreting </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> life anew into our every tissue moribund,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> afresh unto our stale and stalling craft, </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">grant in this obscurity a little light.</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">- Scott Cairns</span></div></body></html>