This poem is taken from PN Review 16, Volume 7 Number 2, November - December 1980.
Theology
'True search for God is God's'
Beyond, p. 121
'Aristotle shares . . . with all other academics whatever, the view that cognitio dei is conceivable only if it is God Himself knowing Himself.'
Werner Gaeger, Aristotle, p. 165-6
Thought about God; thought about Thought:
What settles for us which is which
Or tells us how the primal nought
Found its way to such a switch?
From the start Life's lived on life.
Every creature, in us or without,
Tuned to assume its world a strife
Feeds to be fed on, have no doubt.
Symbiosis and all the rest,
Cooperations up to the hilt,
All that search for a gentle best
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