The Institute of Reflection
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by Hemal Jayasuriya

Poetry thrives in a shadowy, allusive world in which feelings that can be un-pinnable in precise language come into a reality all their own. It may seem to have little to do with the world of facts and experimentation that is science. If all that there is can be explained by what we see and/or what we can prove, what need is there for poetry?
POEM

A  Binary  Spinning  a  Solid  Web

The Trees joined up
At the top :  seemingly a one
Canopy shading folk from
A fierce tropical Sun.
An idea :  Canopy takes hold
Disembodied, on its own, free, a float
Removed from the Trees. It is a separator
Of Above from Below ;  Outside
From Inside, at work in many
Places in the World at large.
An intangible entity, like one found
At the interface of a River
Flowing to meet the voluminous Sea.
Chaos within the Atom, cut out by its
Boundary : the Canopy, a solid minute figure
As viewed from the Outside, coagulating to make
A solid Tree ;  Atom, a predictable brick in the Order
Of built structures. A contradiction, as baffling as it is
Sound as Oak :  Real Duality exists asking to be solved