Poetry of Eli Siegel
Technique Is When
Technique is when
Things which have been alone,
Their friendship not seen,
Their fervent love not seen,
Are brought together winsomely,
And deeply
(Showing they’re friends to everything,
Not just themselves),
And collidingly,
Or opposingly,
And merged:
How merged—
In mystery,
In just-so-ness,
In love,
In nowness,
Forevermore perhaps.
From The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known #313 (Aesthetic Realism Foundation)
© 1952, 1979 by Eli Siegel