For the New Year

For the New Year, 1981 by Denise Levertov I have a small grain of hope– one small crystal that gleams clear colors out of transparency. I need more. I break off a fragment to send you. Please take this grain of a grain of hope so that mine won't shrink. Please share your fragment so that yours will grow. Only so, by division, will hope increase, like a clump of irises, which will cease to flower unless you distribute the clustered roots, unlikely source– clumsy and earth-covered– of grace. found here:   http://briarcroft.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/earth-covered-grace/