文章基本信息

标题：Traveling Too Fast to Arrive.
作者：Bishop, James Gleason
期刊名称：Christianity and Literature
印刷版ISSN：0148-3331
出版年度：2004
期号：January
语种：English
出版社：Sage Publications, Inc.

摘要：

 Traveling Too Fast to Arrive     I feel distant from my wife today.    She's in good company, since    I also feel distant from God,    And distant from myself.    Harumph. After all my effort.     My wife is on the other side    Of a washed-out bridge    Yelling something important    That I can't hear    To someone I can't see.    Her back is toward me.     I am hovering four feet    Above myself, all day long    I'm turning left and right    Saying, I thought I was right    Here, now where in the world    Could I have left myself this time?     God, on the third hand, is a mystery.    He is the tiny oak shim that keeps    The chair leg snug in place. Easily    Within my reach, though    In a thousand years I'd never    Think to look there.

Traveling Too Fast to Arrive.

Bishop, James Gleason

Traveling Too Fast to Arrive

   I feel distant from my wife today.
   She's in good company, since
   I also feel distant from God,
   And distant from myself.
   Harumph. After all my effort.

   My wife is on the other side
   Of a washed-out bridge
   Yelling something important
   That I can't hear
   To someone I can't see.
   Her back is toward me.

   I am hovering four feet
   Above myself, all day long
   I'm turning left and right
   Saying, I thought I was right
   Here, now where in the world
   Could I have left myself this time?

   God, on the third hand, is a mystery.
   He is the tiny oak shim that keeps
   The chair leg snug in place. Easily
   Within my reach, though
   In a thousand years I'd never
   Think to look there.