The Order Of Things by Peter Marin
Posted by: Bill Pearlman
Published on May 5th, 2010 @ 09:41:40 am , using 112 words, 46 views
Published on May 5th, 2010 @ 09:41:40 am , using 112 words, 46 views
THE ORDER OF THINGS
(For Stanley Keleman)
The order of things
revealing itself permits us
the freedom of rest --
this, then, is our world.
Mathematicians know it
among numbers, thinkers
among ideas, lovers
in the form of a body beloved
changing its shape over time.
Written, say the Arabs, and maybe it is
as the clusters of mulberries
make themselves into men.
Order! And here we stand
in the wild, buffeting wind
as the beating of each heart
measures Becoming and its end.
--Peter Marin
Permalink
Comment feed for this post