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Water, Fire, and the Gods
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THE ARTS
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3 / 1986 |
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Antonio de Nicolas
Antonia de Nicolas is the author of Habits of Mind,
Remembering the God to Come, Avatara, and other works. He
teaches philosophy at SUNY at Stony Brook, N.Y. |
The Rose in the Eye
The rose in the eye
is as distant from the soul
as the sunset from the dawn,
as is the rose the poet uses
to rhyme or the rose
lovers give one another
to remember the past.
A rose, to be a rose
must be remembered with the soul,
built whole from the
imagination
in frames of
earth, thorns, roots,
petals and scent
by lending to memory
in bursts of sensation
the light of the eye,
the colors of the sun,
the sound of the breeze,
the touch of the soil,
briers and silk,
the taste of honey,
of dew, of milk,
the scent of wings
in flight,
of the passage of the
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