Husserlian Meditation, and: Solvitur Ambulando
- Husserlian Meditation, and: Solvitur Ambulando
Husserlian Meditation
The squirrels deny themselves from front and back and only word into view from the sides when their outline rejects the coup of geometry. From the south we delight in the polar symmetry of their foggy tails cupped by rounded hinds. North, the nutshell of head lacks an easy grasp. East is west for us, their weight by buried muscles held so that the tail and torso deceive in balance. What made them thus is unstudied grace which I unmake and recompose, compelled to translate experience into coded fuss. The beast will feed and leave the watchers to maze their habits and splice contortions into ballets. [End Page 126]
Solvitur Ambulando
The man used to walk four miles a day, two hours at first, less as he got stronger and thinner, to defy the sense of rules that dictates higher challenges as the ability climbs. Rebel mind in a rebel body. Not even Plato’s philosopher escaped the cave on logic alone. He gutted. He fed the incipient. The machine simply rumbled and smoked, but he refused to stitch the causal quilt and rather slipped into light quite unwrappingly, birthday eyes all full of disbelief. But not belief, for faith is logic-weaned, owes it the farm where happening-onto is a stranger, stranger than a broken plow, stranger than walking off the great betrayal of the once loved. Proof: all journeys are circular, emptying and deaf. [End Page 127]
Ricardo Pau-Llosa has published seven books of poetry. His latest is Man (Carnegie Mellon, 2014). He is also an art critic and curator. His poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, Hudson Review, Poetry, the New England Review, Southern Review, Boston Review, and elsewhere.
