{"id":191043,"date":"2021-08-23T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=191043"},"modified":"2021-08-05T06:09:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T05:09:36","slug":"figures-of-thought-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/08\/figures-of-thought-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Figures of Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Mathematical-Existential Poem about the Interconnectedness of the Universe<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A splendid song of praise for the elemental truth at the heart of all art, science, and nature. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To lay the logarithmic spiral on<br \/>\nSea-shell and leaf alike, and see it fit,<br \/>\nTo watch the same idea work itself out<br \/>\nIn the fighter pilot\u2019s steepening, tightening turn<br \/>\nOnto his target, setting up the kill,<br \/>\nAnd in the flight of certain wall-eyed bugs<br \/>\nWho cannot see to fly straight into death<br \/>\nBut have to cast their sidelong glance at it<br \/>\nAnd come but cranking to the candle\u2019s flame \u2014<\/p>\n<p>How secret that is, and how privileged<br \/>\nOne feels to find the same necessity<br \/>\nCiphered in forms diverse and otherwise<br \/>\nWithout kinship \u2014 that is the beautiful<br \/>\nIn Nature as in art, not obvious,<br \/>\nNot inaccessible, but just between.<\/p>\n<p>It may diminish some our dry delight<br \/>\nTo wonder if everything we are and do<br \/>\nLies subject to some little law like that;<br \/>\nHidden in nature, but not deeply so.<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HowardNemerov_young.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-191044 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HowardNemerov_young-e1628140048594.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Howard Nemerov was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. For <\/em>The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov<em>, he won the National Book Award for Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematical-Existential Poem about the Interconnectedness of the Universe &#8211; A splendid song of praise for the elemental truth at the heart of all art, science, and nature. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":191044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-191043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}