Who Wrote the Book of Love?

To discover laws, you need facts.
           Of course. But laws! 
Laws are about relationships.

The cast from my childhood biographies – pea plant and pigeon
breeders, lens grinders and collectors 
           would testify:

that you can discover anything if you’re patient enough.

If you’re imaginative enough 
           and tough. Curious.
If you vibrate and resonate, hyper-able to read signs…
perceiving the tiniest swerve or oddity –
	  flash, whiff or residue.

If your study feels like courtship!
	  All new. You know. You know
what you saw. What it means. How delicious it could be to verify!

The miners and mechanics, the alchemists,
	  taxidermists –
they’d testify!
 	 
	  That if you’re receptive,
if you’re in love or some similar state, if you have to know. If you want
	  that knowledge,
you’ll devise the means – titrations, 
          equations, dissections...
Calculations and equilibrations. Instruments.

Those restless cooks and brewers! Observant healers…
	  Astronomers and microscopists.

They proved that sooner or later, you’ll detect
          what’s too small, too far,
too big or too quiet, too subtle!

You’ll get there. You’ll coax the remote into
touching – moving things you can 
          see. And you’ll measure
and record, measure and compare,
          and relationships
          come clear.

About the Author: Sue Blaustein is the author of “In the Field, Autobiography of an Inspector”. Her information can be found at www.sueblaustein.com. Recently she contributed a poem to a “The Subtle Forces” podcast episode and was interviewed on the “Blue Collar Gospel Hour”. A retiree, she blogs for Milwaukee’s  Ex Fabula, serves as an interviewer/writer for the “My Life My Story” program at the Zablocki VA Medical Center, and chases insects at the Milwaukee Urban Ecology Center.

Image Credit: Pietro Rotari “A Young Woman with a Book” (1756) Public domain image courtesy of Artvee