Index to Nature: Spontaneous Generation

There are the ten kinds of rose,
more than seventy bivalves,
thousands of generally speaking,
cacti, in the dictionary of birds.

The order of texts in anxious
catalogues known simply as:

The observations of a few
in the digests called The Many
and is, if you will, a conspicuous gift
to the knowing of the opulent knowledges.

The general plan is, how
do you say it, keen. There is
a sorting of things based on:

color, lingua, juxta-resource
that is absolutely, encyclopaedic.
There are few that make sense
of it and still, a few of those
are on the verges
of looking in and away again
as if to notice a new patch
of grass that somehow escaped
the forces of stone and progress,
then crept out anyway.
It is unique, momentary, revelational
requires the finesse of the ancient,
the timing of snakes.
How unimportant grass is
in terms of parable and scholarship
when it grows. How it is when
it is found on a grave and more
still, how it demands the greatest
of attentions. Now sit still and listen.