A Well-Known Rock On Tour

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Suppose you come to a rock on the moor:

| That may or may not have fallen there
| as a meteorite burrows out of the sky,
| or lava drops cool in a vanished lake.
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| That may or may not have rolled there
| on the impulse of a rough-hewn hermit,
| or the reverence of a primitive tribe.
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| That may or may not have been crafted
| as an architrave, a bourne, a caltrop,
| a dolmen, an epistyle, a fenestration?

That is the sort of ambiguity that I have been wrestling with,
the type of uncertainty of type that arises in trying to read
the "Book Of Nature" (BON), the unsettling noise that will at
turns shock, surprise, and surround us as we strain to pursue
this "Dialogue Involving Nature" (DIN) as one of its partners.

This is not the brand of sort of type of ambiguity that will be
extinguished by our impoverished attempts to control the speech
of our neighbors, nor would it serve us well even if we succeed.

Jon Awbrey, 16 Oct 2000

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