Comprehension - Gary Turchin

[Larry Robinson]

Comprehension
 
I do not comprehend why mountain reaches for sky with such exuberance,
Why valley curls along the riverbed with such divinity,
Why ravine descends deeper, sometimes, than my despair,
Why hills roll so sweetly out like waves and make me want to walk them,
swim them, dive them,
own them.
They say it’s geography
/geology
/geometry
/human nature
or some combination of all the –ologies and –ometries
and therapies
but I suspect something deeper in the architecture;
like: everything is a reflection of everything else,
like: we are living in a kind of funhouse of mirrors,
that isn’t always fun—
that should be painfully obvious by now—
and for that, mountain reflects sky
reflects valley
reflects river
reflects ravine
reflects despair
reflects divinity
reflects the ink spill of night that hold the stars and galaxies above. 
 
We are the tealeaves in our own fortune’s cup,
and the stars mountains and galaxies
are all steeping with us
in this warm ambrosia;
they, casting our die
as we, cast theirs,
spelling each other’s fortunes
like rain spells the flowers’
or Spring spells Winter’s.
 
	- Gary Turchin
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