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Ina Coolbrith
1841 – 1928 / Nauvoo, Illinois
The Unsolvable
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What use the questioning? This thing we are:
A breath called life, housed for a little space
In how infinitesimal a star; -
Then vanished, leaving neither sound nor trace.
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