poesied prose

It is clear
how animate and inanimate things
subsist with equal dignity,
not one reigns supreme.

Because our globe is transient
and full of darkness
must it be decried
as inferior to the sun?

No!

Are sublunar unities less than those
fixed in the firmament?

Or what of the Spider?
Was he not made
equivalent to a Perch?

Each entity controls
an empire of its own.

 --- Evan S. Connell  (The Alchemyst's Journal)