- Richard Hague
ARAR
The Mind That’s in The Tool
Richard Hague
In the hammer cohabit
cousins gravity and intention.
They work together
to muscle asunder the softer world:
flesh, wings,
all frail antennae.
Iron or steel,
or bronze
or stone. We go backwards
in such tools,
yet forget beginnings.
Our hands. Our wrists,
Our minds
make action, consequence.
Linnaean litanies.
The labyrinth of Crete.
Assyrian walls.
We will, we gouge and smash
and group and gather and pile up our ways
toward the knowledge
that itself may break us as we enter,
alien, headlong, its wild careen.
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