on analysis

shall we arrive by dissection
necessarily creating a carcass
or shall we stand back and compare
necessarily creating a distance

of course we shall do both neither
and both
in roughly equal measure
if a truth is what we seek
rather than an opinion

in the nuance of one soup to another
say Monday’s or Thursday’s
we can guess at the contents but
the flavour is the whole
and richer tomorrow

with scalpels it is best to be
wary and careful
binoculars must be used with
wisdom and unhurry

there is much to be missed in the rush