Sense of Wisdom

wisdom knows that it does not know

so it knows it knows something

but that something is a speck of nothing

and in that speck of a nothing

is the beginning of knowing a something;

wisdom knows that the subject and object

and preposition and verb and participle

of all that can be known is the one divine

and so the only sentence uttered

that ever made any sense is

when a sole man, a lone woman,

looked up at the spattered starry sky

and looked in at the blood-pulsing heart

and felt the space between them collapse

in that immeasurably small grain of time

and he and she said: 

God is here

and not here

and now I know