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How Many Days Christian Wiman (bio) How many days I wasted chasing Godwhen I could have been in bed with you. I'm no gardener but twice I've triedplanting a little patch of somethingback of the predictable. How many days I spent spending lifedown on my knees in that first dirt.Little grew, and what did tasted vaguely of tar,Tony's Finer Foods, and fear. How many cities, how much botch and rot,how many seductions of sound and circumstance,to reach, receive, as in a migraine a mite of peace:It's not that of two truths you've chosen wrongly,but that in choosing you've wronged it all. I'm no gardener, but here I am, going at it againin my lazy way of flinging seed,where every failure's out of love,and even the wrong sloth rots upward in time. [End Page 459] Christian Wiman Christian Wiman is the author of My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer (FSG 2013) and He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art (FSG 2018). His most recent books of poems are Hammer is the Prayer and Survival is a Style, both from FSG. He received the Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry from the Sewanee Review in 2016. Copyright © 2020 Johns Hopkins University Press
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