Poetry of Issue #5                        Page 10
Table of Contents	Mesaic She used small pieces of colored glass to arrange the future in ordered patterns in order to recognize it when it arrived.   Mark Young __ ©Aldo Vigliarolo Aphrodite's foot	Kōan How far would science & philosophy have progressed if an eternal antelope had lived in the gardens of Plato & Newton & reached up on its hind legs & eaten the apples before they fell?   Mark Young__	A Salute to James Schuyler Never the initial act, planting, even if used as such, as in "planting the seed." Some- thing always comes before. Maybe as meta- phor. Planting the foot down. Implies a previous determination or re- action to something already passed by. Infers the soil made ready, the hole already dug. & even when no planting done, thinking about it is a kind of prelude.   Mark Young__	An old world almanack We planted a sustainable garden to meet our annual ritual needs. A number of editing tracks play off one another. The first red maple began to turn in mid August. Routine acts & their contextually determined meanings overwhelm good planning & common sense. The barrista used either too fine of a grind or maybe even the wrong temperature. Events are encoded in terms of their serial order & timing relative to other events. The service for the dead was then read by General Pendleton. The frame within which we are encouraged to read this text is divided. If you can't grow radishes you can't grow anything at all.                 Mark Young__