of worth or merit that accrue;
Learn to gauge and gouge their order
turn them over, flex a corner
For what flexes has a basis
without flexing, bitter stasis
Rigor routs the flooded river;
stave it off and save a sliver
Mind and matter live together
each is pleasant when its ever
built of some innate endeavor.
Each in seedling needs some water
Sun and rain and other weather;
but the roots of mind are firmer
than our knowledge of its utter
distance from the slipping winter
echoes by a brimming water
words withheld to silent number.
poetry ii. main