Wave1

for the question is always

how

out of all the chances and changes

to select

the features of real significance

so as to make

of the welter

a world that will last

and how to order

the signs and symbols

so they will continue

to form new patterns

developing into

new harmonic wholes

so to keep life alive

in complexity

and complicity

with all of being-

there is only poetry.

Wave1 from Walking the Coast by Kenneth White