Credo

A poem should be scientific:
It should say
What can be said
Correctly.

A poet
Is someone who fathoms.

He discovers plainly:
DNA is not adorned, 'the facts
Are the sweetest dream...'.

They should be called, not 'poems',
But 'essays':
We are not finished.

We work at a block and try to cut
According to the figure,

Always attempting what is.

Is it pathetic or romantic?
Perhaps. But mere feeling
Is the flow above the bedrock:
Water can warp
Limestone
Over millions of years
Into a fantasy,
But it cannot change the nature
That it shapes.

Our job is to open up that nature,
To measure it and mine it,
And to show what we find
In the manner most transparent to our thoughts.