Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Not This Cardinal, Not This Snow - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Not This Cardinal, Not This Snow

 

Men have written of cardinals before

(Both ecclesiastical and avian)

And men have written of fresh snow before

But not this cardinal and not this snow

 

And so we visit Plato’s obscure cave

To cast our vision around the shadowing flames

Plato will not tell us what we must think

And so we think out all things for ourselves

 

Men have written of cardinals before -

But not this cardinal, and not this snow

 

In this context “men” is inclusive. Honi soit qui mal y pense, as Fat Henry said.

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