Orthodoxy

Orthodoxy

Says the nut to the shell:

         “I saw
         birth
         and variety—
         there is light,
         and sky,
         and our mother,

              the tree!”

Says the shell to the nut:

          “Heretic!
              You must be hallucinating or sick!
                    I know what I know,
                                        and darkness abounds . . .

          Believe me:

              there’s nothing around
              but ground!”





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This poem is from "Bottle in the River" 
                     about a Poet's journey down a river, chasing a bottle
                     tossed by the fingertips of "that I am."
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Written within the parameters of the theory of "Multivalence"