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De profundis: Two Triolets on Psalm 130

I am posting these poems both here and at my Substack.

Psalm 130:1

Out of the depths I cry to you.
Lord, hear my voice and answer me.
All men are liars. You are true.
So from the depths I cry to you.
What else can Jonah’s scion do,
When drowning in sin’s lonely sea,
Than spite the depths and cry to you:
”Lord, hear my voice and answer me.”

Psalm 130:3

If you should mark iniquities,
O Lord, how will a person stand?
We fall at once, not by degrees,
If you should mark iniquities.
A God above who knows, who sees
Our savagery in heart and hand—
If you should mark iniquities,
O Lord, how will a person stand?

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