Everything is what it is
- Everything is what it is
and not another thing.
Tonight the rain—a drear refrain—makes dark the little theaterof mind that is my ark.
A wind in the treessounds of applause,and fast fill the gullies,fast fill the ditches dug of doubtbefore the storm blows out.
Morning’s curtain rises—sunlight spills its apricot nectar over the fields—enter songbirds that never once rehearsedtheir dew-winged and flitting play.But I again, again must stage my claimon sweet today.
* “Everything is what it is and not another thing.”
–Bishop Joseph Butler (1692-1752)
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Brook J. Sadler is a philosopher and poet. Her poems can be found in The Cortland Review, Atlanta Review, Mixitini Matrix, GW Review, The Boiler Journal, Connotation Press, McNeese Review, Chariton Review, and other places. Her philosophical essays appear in Philosophy, Journal of Social Philosophy, The Monist, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, among other journals and books. She lives in Florida and writes wherever she happens to be.
