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"The Mind"
Watercolor, 22K Gold on Calfskin

Available through the Village Artisans Gallery.

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The mind is an enchanting thing
is an enchanted thing
like the glaze on a
katydid-wing
subdivided by sun
till the nettings are legion.
Like Gieseking playing Scarlatti
like the apteryx-awl
as a beak or the
kiwi's rain-shawl
of haired feathers, the mind
feeling its way as though blind
walks with its eyes on the ground.
It has memory's ear
that can hear without
having to hear
Like the gyroscope's fall
truly unequivocal
because trued by regnant certainty
it is a power of
strong enchantment. It
is like the dove-
neck animated by
sun; it is memory's eye
it's conscientious inconsistency
It tears off the veil; tears
the temptation, the
mist the heart wears,
from its eyes -- if the heart
has a face; it takes apart
dejection. It's fire in the dove-neck's
iridescence; in the
inconsistencies
of Scarlatti
Unconfusion submits
its confusion to proof; it's
not a Herod's oath that cannot change.
--- MArianne Moore