We often take understanding to be knowing, but it is only a shape held in thought. This short poem is a quiet gesture toward what remains when knowing falls away. Read it slowly. Perhaps the words will fall away just enough for something deeper to be glimpsed, not found, not captured, but quietly remembered.
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