Crossing The Jabbok Poem by gershon hepner

Living perilously on a fault
that straddled disbelief and stranded faith,
he felt a tremor like a quake exalt
his reason, as if wrestling with a wraith.


Jay Parini, quoted by John Updike in 'Poet on the Fault Line' (The New Yorker, March 15,1999) , in 'Robert Frost: A Life' (Henry Holt) that Frost's poems 'live on that perilous fault line between skepticism and faith'.



© 1999 Gershon Hepner 3/12/99