Wednesday 5 January 2011

The observers


It was a partial eclipse
and the three observers
stood in the corner

and looked
through their safety binoculars
(on sale in selected emporia)

at the white boat
in the black sea
and they thought

about how it must be
to be able to see
all of the boats

and to see
them all
all of the time
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gw2011
image: Wikipedia

5 comments:

  1. Great take on this event. If only I was high enough to see all the boats.

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  2. Pat,
    I've put up an image to help you your heavenly thoughts take off.

    Gordon,
    Thanks. I've always thought you were one of high enough ones :)

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  3. A clever conclusion. It got me thinking (a) of the Patchen picture poem, "All at once is what eternity is" and (b) the way we tend to find rare phenomena astonishing and the ones that surround us all the time, commonplace.

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  4. Thanks Dominic, and what you say at (b) is very true. The new poem today (10/1/11) 'My insect' looks again in this direction.
    Best,
    Gwilym

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