Selected Fragments

By Richard Mather

Tool-use

If the hammer is a symbol

Of the power of the hand,

The hand is the product

Of the need for a hammer.

Horizon

Objects are luminous:

Their light appears

On the intellect’s

Horizontal plane,

That boundary between

Knower and known.

Point

There is no place for me to exist,

Always on the edge. Like you

I am an extensionless point

At the limit of a world I see

But don’t belong in.

Question

What is the matter?

It is a base question.

It is the not-one, without limit, infinite.

From it finite things are composed

By the mind’s understanding.