VERSE
Donnelly, Dorothy
SUNS AND STRAWS DOROTHY DONNELLY Though the fall of an apple is not, like the fall of a star, a spectacular act, one apple rose, as it fell, to comet-fame when Newton, noting it, saw in the...
...SUNS AND STRAWS DOROTHY DONNELLY Though the fall of an apple is not, like the fall of a star, a spectacular act, one apple rose, as it fell, to comet-fame when Newton, noting it, saw in the flash of its fall, the clue to the law of the fall of all-straws and stones...
...Mysterious matter-mute, inscrutable, dark, indestructible stuff...
...What Juggler, balancing galaxies like plates, set those celestial corollas to spinning, creating thereby a Versailles of lily-bright lights and fountains across the sky...
...Not an atom is lost from the plump planet's curvaceous figure...
...or fatten a worm...
...Apple and apple-shaped earth, each in its orbit, stand or fall by the laws they're attuned to-the Pied Piper music that all the spheres hear, that moves the millions of suns through space and assembles the nebulas' clusters...
...Ever at the beck of form, it will furnish flesh for a flea or a flower...
...or fur a tiger...
...But earth, like a jealous shepherd zealous for the sheep of his flock, draws with her magni-magnet all matter's scattered fragments back into her keep...
...oak trees and sparrows and hairs...
Vol. 101 • January 1975 • No. 11
