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Shades Of Gray   3 comments

Shades of Gray — Computer Painting by kenne

In Spinoza’s eye
the body is not carved in light
or swallowed in darkness,
but lives in shades of gray—
a continuum of motion,
substance unfolding
without division.

No soul above,
no flesh below,
only parallel lines
where thought and body
trace the same curve.

Each gesture,
each ache,
each quiet breath—
a necessary note
in the gray music
of existence.

 

 

Clouds At Sunset Over the Catalina Foothills   2 comments

Clouds At Sunset Over the Catalina Foothills — Image by kenne

Want in a person
is like hunger in a dog, Spinoza
probably would not say.

His wakeful, solitary
reasoning plainly outstrips
my wildest intuition.

Yet insofar as my heart
is a boot with a hole in it, I think
this is what writing could be

—what he calls Nature,
an existence no longer borne
as means or ends.

— from Spinoza Says by Sandra Lim