The lesions
disabled flight
blood on feathers –
the partridge’s
philosophy is about
connexion;
it is injured
it is agitated
it is shot –
the partridge’s
philosophy is in
perplexity;
a few flutters
slight paralysis
puzzled limbs –
the partridge’s
philosophy is
assimilating loss;
injured wings
stationary muscles
killed appearance –
the partridge’s
philosophy asks, can
dead birds fly?
(from a sequence &there4 of poems found in philosophical texts, this one from Chapter IV. The Relativity of all Knowledge. – First Principles by Herbert Spencer)
Mike Ferguson