THOREAU'S GREAT FRIEND : LIFE THROUGH IDENTITIES?

(Rick De Mont's watercolor)

GREAT FRIEND 

I walk in nature still alone

and know no one

discern no lineament nor feature

of any cretaure

HDT

GRAN AMIGO

Camino en la naturaleza todavía solitaria

y no conozco a nadie

ni discierno figura o característica

de criatura alguna

Un metro de DNA por cromosoma multiplicado por 46 cromosomas que contiene cada célula hacen 46 metros de DNA por célula; multiplicado por un billón de células que hay en el cuerpo dan un total de 46 billones de metros de DNA en el cuerpo de una persona. La luna está sólo a 200.000 millones de metros de distancia

(Lynn Margulis y Dorion Sagan, Microcosmos)

 LIFE THROUGH IDENTITIES? (From June 10, 2020 to October 17, 2020)

Since her inception

feeding upon her mother's blood

till her last dying breath

someone endured

and it seems

outlived herself

nobody guess in which Teseo's ship

not wholly anew

journing away 

forever since

(GRZ)

Lynn Margulis cita en Microcosmos el poema 1400 de Emily Dickinson:

What mystery pervades a well!
That water lives so far –
A neighbor from another world
Residing in a jar

Whose limit none has ever seen,
But just his lid of glass –
Like looking every time you please
In an abyss's face!

The grass does not appear afraid,
I often wonder he
Can stand so close and look so bold
At what is awe to me.

Related somehow they may be,
The sedge stands near the sea –
Where he is floorless
And does no timidity betray

But nature is a stranger yet:
The ones that cite her most
Have never passed her haunted house,
Nor simplified her ghost.

To pity those that know her not
Is helped by the regret
That those who know her, know her less
The nearer her they get.

Rick De Mont is painting Thoreau's, Dickinson's and Marguli's nature ("awe to me and a stranger yet")