The Web Poetry Corner - Frank Valentyn - Still-life with Ducks
Still-life with Ducks
by
Frank Valentyn
There is 'duckness ' as Plato said
and the conformance to its ideal form
by the atomic arrangement in my view
in six examples, one hissing
at the dogness on my leash
I came away with Plato edified
feeding Bohm's implicate order
with the small returned gift
of slightly spoiled lettuce
grateful stalish bread
and my own verbalised imitation
of quacked comment on humans
continually compared by explication
to its ideal form