This poem is taken from PN Review 161, Volume 31 Number 3, January - February 2005.
Touchstone
Touchstone
Aquinas was wrong.
Science and religion are
not continuous. Thus:
the late robin in the
dark garden. A gift,
a lock, a wedge, an
order or a wistfulness.
A real bird in actual
space. And matter
constitutes the laws
allowing notes from a
perch on the line-post.
The head cocks, which seems
astute. Then the further
limits of our being plunge
...
Aquinas was wrong.
Science and religion are
not continuous. Thus:
the late robin in the
dark garden. A gift,
a lock, a wedge, an
order or a wistfulness.
A real bird in actual
space. And matter
constitutes the laws
allowing notes from a
perch on the line-post.
The head cocks, which seems
astute. Then the further
limits of our being plunge
...
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