Summary

In “Matins (#3),” the speaker addresses God, telling him that she finds it challenging to have faith and to love him because she cannot see him. She wonders if God is like the hawthorn tree or like foxglove, and she asks God if his silence and invisibility are intended to inspire belief or disbelief in humankind.

In “Matins (#4),” the speaker continues addressing God, comparing him to a birch tree and apologizing for her disbelief and her desire for proof of his existence. She wonders if she is better off worshiping the birch tree.

In “Scilla,” a scilla plant addresses a human audience, expressing its superiority and humanity's comparative inferiority. The scilla does not understand why people do what they do or what they are seeking in their lives.

In “Retreating Wind,” God addresses humankind, stating that he once loved them but now pities them...