23 November 2010


1440
The square root of minus one
Upon the flecked blue grass
As if the leaves had wings to angle
Their yellow selves along the unreal axis.
By the autumn tree our terminus we wonder
At the once-green:
The jetsam of chance,
Or fine vortical solution?
No: it is the freemasonry of the unthinking,
With sister truth arrayed,
Beyond an art's arraignment;
What beauty's beheld in this field
Needs no beholder.