Words Where do they originate? Fastened to parchment, Ink, lead, or blood . . . Their stain, timeless— Nature's Lesson Though nerves of light bind us— To the cosmic illusion of thought and being, Nature communicates with No syntax, No semantics. Every interaction leaves an effect— As energy awaits Experience and reciprocal exchange. Nature does not struggle— Against society’s rigid inertia, Nor does it wither into faceless isolation. Nature’s tutelage is profound. For within the corporeal realm, Even the unfathomable strength of stars Diminishes with the passage of time.

Dwayne R. Crites has a B.A. in Philosophy, a B.S. in Psychology, and an M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. He currently teaches ethics, philosophy and writing at Three Rivers Community College in Poplar Bluff, where he also supervises the Bedell Reading and Writing Center. His poetry has been published by Watermark Press; his non-fiction prose has appeared in the Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition and the Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research.




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