Beyond The Garden

Is knowledge just the memory

of what has gone before

Our current thoughts a window dress,

in search of something more

Are ideas in our DNA,

and cellular as such

Feelings lost within those thoughts,

wading through the dust

Is our soul but then a footnote

to a novel other writ

Our searching doomed to wander back

—beyond the starts and fits

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)