from “The Cloud of Unknowing”
God descends as a hand.
Perhaps giving, perhaps taking.
Perhaps the monks were drawing God’s hand.
Perhaps God was saying ︎ get a load of this.
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Reprinted with permission from Little Sound by Katherine Gibbel, published by the University of Chicago Press. © 2026 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.
Katherine Gibbel is a poet whose work has been published in The Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, jubilat, mercury firs, and elsewhere. She edits and prints Send Me Press. Her first book, Little Sound, will be published by the University of Chicago Press Phoenix Poets Series in October 2026.
Perhaps giving, perhaps taking.
Perhaps the monks were drawing God’s hand.
Perhaps God was saying ︎ get a load of this.
︎Add from “The Cloud of Unknowing” to cart
Reprinted with permission from Little Sound by Katherine Gibbel, published by the University of Chicago Press. © 2026 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.
Katherine Gibbel is a poet whose work has been published in The Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, jubilat, mercury firs, and elsewhere. She edits and prints Send Me Press. Her first book, Little Sound, will be published by the University of Chicago Press Phoenix Poets Series in October 2026.
