For J.J.
What is it good for—
Painting, music, sculpture, poems?
Power? No! Just breath!
Painted caves reveal
Envisioned prey—hunted meat—
Art is magical.
If physics, not art,
Reigns, why, then, do we call rules
Music of the spheres?
Ancient sculpture found!
Terrifying gods, or just
Pleasing to the eye?
Conundrum: were poems
Imagined, then puzzled out—
Or always aflame?
(3/18/09)