three turns from heraclitus

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Three Turns from HeraclitusAuthor(s): Ralph GordonSource: Arion, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 4 (1975), p. 482Published by: Trustees of Boston UniversityStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20163393 .

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THREE TURNS FROM HERACLITUS

Ralph Gordon

THE DRY SOUL

He remembers always His shadow is not the red shadow of fire, But the shadow of mind which is mind; His speech the retained rainbow; his thought The eyes' thought of blue, The ears' thought of thunder; He sees the chances of his life

But the changed face of light,

Foreign to all but to wisdom.

THE APE

The ape puts on

The god he is not, gathers his brows

Homeric, modifies

His mug divinely to a smile

Delicater

Than words, looks off

Pythagorean, while a paw

Abstractedly explores A little private matter.

LOGOS

Logos refuses

The birds' feet of reality,

Script upon sliding sand; The stances of the intellect, Conflicted mirrors; But like light, there

Come before darkness answers here, Tells once, innumerably, The hidden imager.

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