and with a
purpose and a will that are unrelenting,
including
potentials for interaction with other elements;
and tenable,
therefore, that the periodic table
is profoundly,
absolutely amoral.
They gaze, now,
upon the habitat,
awaiting
implication.
APPARATUS
It is a thing of mysteries.
A thing of accretion.
Of signs and schematics, lists and categories.
Of wedges and levers, chisels and measures and cogs.
*
One day in 1933 Paul Klee returned to Bern, bearing the proposition that his truth lay hidden at the bottom of things. Or in a dream.
One day in that year John Cheever woke at Yaddo, feeling at the bottom of something.
*
This must not be absurd.
Oliver Rice's poems have appeared widely in journals and
anthologies in the United States, as well as Canada, Argentina, England, The
Netherlands, Austria, Turkey, and India. His book of Poems, On Consenting to be a Man, is offered by Cyberwit, a diversified publishing house in the cultural capital Allahabad, India,
and is available on Amazon. He was recently featured in Best
of the Literary Journals. Go to escene.webdelsol.com.
