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"Meditation on One" appears in the September 2011 issue of Chronogram,
an exceptional magazine that explores the arts, culture and spirit of the Hudson Valley every month. Philip Levine is the poetry editor. Shown here is cover art for this issue from a photo entitled "Snow White, Her Heart, The Queen" by photographer Alicia J. Rose.
Meditation on One
One is not lonely;
it is the beginning
and always the end.
One can meet another
and ripen into two who
can beget three or four, or not...
They can remain two or perchance
part, and become one again,
but once one knows
the feeling of two, its heart
invariably yearns for more.
This remembering sets
a longing afire; even God
willed to see God, and said
"Let there be Light."
Arlene Gay Levine
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