Itself in Mind for the Future

By Richard Mather

We see the visible world as somehow

inevitable, with all its ratios

of movement & rest, its manifold shapes

& ecstatic forms, not realising

that nature is always busy, acting

unseen in all its power, without

external cause, producing within

itself its own effects, differentiating

this idea from that idea, bypassing

one potential in favour of another,

& making actual a particular

mode of being (a mutation,

a thing, a body, a colour),

while keeping other potentials,

other singularities,

in mind for the future.