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>>>> Most of the time most of our action
aims to avoid the obvious presence,
ontology's ghost forever leering:
"This moment will stop; the absence will stay."
The grasses of April are grasses of Aprils,
presents of pasts requiring no labels.
Yet sometime the globe was turning without them.
Imagine a past as devoid as the future.
But mind that imagines is more than the seasons,
entering like a chemical cousin,
mutating absence, puncturing presence.
Convergence is calling--our only Omega.
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AnAn essay on Teilhard de Chardin's Phenomenon of Man talks about his idea of noogenesis, the convergence of human consciousness as a process that would bring evolution to a climax.
4 March 2001 Copyright © 2001 Richard P. Richter