Foucault's Logos

Do I dare to think Foucault was wrong

And that, rather than being the very heart

Of all that is, Language is but a part-

Even inconsequential - when the song

Of all creation does not heed the word

In order to exist or to evolve

Over all the aeons that have rolled

By unreflected? So Logos is not Lord

And matter is not held within its power

Any more than vegetative life

Requires substantive syntax to entice

The bees to gently pollinate each flower.

          But while the jury's out, I suppose I might

          Just continue in the gap to write.

Brian HIck

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