Prayer is the little implement

Prayer is the little implement
Through which Men reach
Where Presence -- is denied them.
They fling their Speech
By means of it -- in God's Ear --
If then He hear --
This sums the Apparatus
Comprised in Prayer --

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American poet known for her unconventional use of form and syntax. Most of her work was published posthumously.

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