We Must Somehow Take A Wider View

Laurie Anderson: Big Science

Our life is a faint tracing
on the surface of mystery,
like the idle curved tunnels
of leaf miners
on the face of a leaf.
We must somehow
take a wider view,
look at the whole landscape,
really see it, and describe
what's going on here.
Then we can at least
wail the right question
into the swaddling band
of darkness,
or, if it comes to that,
choir the proper praise.
--Annie Dillard
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Laurie Anderson: excerpt from Dirtday!...Berkeley, CA...9/18/12