You ask me how to pray to someone who is not.
All I know is that prayer constructs a velvet bridge
And walking it we are aloft, as on a springboard,
Above landscapes the color of ripe gold
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Wonderful poem, and thanks to Robert Hass, so fine a poet himself, who has given us English speakers so much of the great Milosz.