ISSUE: Summer 1970
“Every event extends over other events, and every event is extended over by other events.”
—Alfred North Whitehead
I am a field.
I am a blade of grass
Within the field.
I am the field encompassing
The blade.
A mower is in the field.
The mower’s scythe cuts down
A blade. I am cut down,
Fulfilled. I know
I am cut down as a field knows more
Than a mower, more
Than a blade fulfilled
At a mower’s blade.
I am the field—knowing,
Desolate.
