Negative Capability - poem

Lawrence Hall
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Negative Capability in a Basket

 

Negative capability is not
A basket that bore hens’ eggs yesterday
And will carry tomatoes tomorrow
Is not empty today

 

An empty basket is a positive space
Which is laden with possibilities
A book, a dream a hope, a picnic lunch
And thus quite full today

 

There is no emptiness within its rands
Slews
Wales
Stakes
Bye-stakes
Upsetts
Fitches
For we will fill our baskets with good things