UPON READING RENÉ DESCARTES' "DISCOURSE ON THE PROGRAMMATIC DIVISION OF TOTAL REALITY INTO OBSERVED, SUBJECT AND OBJECT, MIND AND MATTER" AND REALIZING THAT SCIENCE IS PART GOD AFTER ALL
1
Every Sunday my great grandparents,
Josiah and Annie McKay Harlan,
Walked with their eleven children, to
The Friend's Meeting House to sit on
Hard wooden benches in silence, waiting
For the Lord to put words in their mouths
Worth sharing. Simple words without
All the razz-ma-tazz of adjectives
And adverbs.
2
And everywhere, the sweet sound of vowels,
The hard drive of consonants, threatened,
At any moment to explode in word after word--
Not so much desirable--but desiring,
Truth for instance.
3
Sometimes when I dream,
I see them, a single, solitary
Silhouette sitting shoulder to shoulder.
Shin to shin.
No one is quite ready to talk.
So much about words is lies
4
Unlike the beauty of a robin's nest nestled
In the arms of a Douglas Fir. The way
One thing belongs to another and another
And another and is still free.
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