This poem is taken from PN Review 136, Volume 27 Number 2, November - December 2000.
Four PoemsOn a Shell-Strewn Beach
What are you looking for,
Hoping to find there
On the sea shore?
A marvellous shell
More bright than rainbow
Small as a pearl
And carved like the tower
Of a white cathedral.
What are you waiting for,
Tide after tide
On the shore of the ocean?
I have come seeking
The infinite cipher
And sum of all wisdom
Inscribed on a grain
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