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Fly
deny me to see such beauty
in the eagle
as I cannot tell you why
or how
tell me
it is only the pleasant naivety
of acquaintanceship
as if you understand
what beauty is
you ask
and ask
how can this complexity
of mangled pulses and nerves
feel sweetness;
yet
how can it not
drowning in proof
you forget
we breathe
before we can name it
The Veterinary Student
We seek here, desperate chancing on some course,
with humble comprehension to portend,
and thoughts of metaphysics to divorce;
Yet all our strife is for what very end?
I say that one can surely not deny,
the dazzling beauty of our very means,
and glimpses at what, perchance, underlie
the sum of all these omnipresent genes.
At first glance dissection may not play fair
with natures’ axioms nor the mortal berth;
For what, with our inspection and repair
can we ascertain about our place on earth?
Yet Socrates was right in all his ways;
With wonder I shall realize all my days.
Charlotte Winder is currently at veterinary college and is interested in the marriage of science and medicine with literature.
Charlotte Winder
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