02-20-2019, 12:41 PM
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Contra Ayn Rand
Origami teaches more
than skillful fingers, memory,
and seeing possibilities
implicit in material unformed;
one also learns–
having folded labor, time
and vision intricately
through mute matter, owning it–
to loose it freely
into river, wind or fire
without regret.
Once again, I've applied much of the advice from the valued critics, perhaps not exactly as given. Thank you!
@billy - "dextrous" is given in one dictionary as "var. dexterous," but, really, it had to go instead of an unsightly "dext'rous." Similarly, this is about the best preposition I could scare up that was neither 'in" nor "into."
Punctuation tweaked per @Knot, and a bit further.
Contra Ayn Rand
Origami teaches more
than skillful fingers, memory,
and seeing possibilities
implicit in material unformed;
one also learns–
having folded labor, time
and vision intricately
through mute matter, owning it–
to loose it freely
into river, wind or fire
without regret.
Once again, I've applied much of the advice from the valued critics, perhaps not exactly as given. Thank you!
@billy - "dextrous" is given in one dictionary as "var. dexterous," but, really, it had to go instead of an unsightly "dext'rous." Similarly, this is about the best preposition I could scare up that was neither 'in" nor "into."
Punctuation tweaked per @Knot, and a bit further.
Non-practicing atheist

