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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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