“Esti: It is. This, Parmenides says, this alone is left for us to say. (Frag. 8, 1–2).” Desmond, God and the Between, 55.
PARMENIDES’ MARES
Addressed too much by
the egret up to its knees
in the dark water,
the thinker doubts him-
self. If that exists,
I’m a minor premise! Yet,
the egret steadies
the horizon, flies
away. Where it was, the light—
that (Parmenides);
there’s the glossy mane
of the mares who brought him where
ESTI resonates.
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