...flows, gathering eddas from the past.
A mentor angel, a guide on the path.
⧎
, from the depths,
“The nature of things is nothing other than the coming of them into being at certain times and in certain fashions.”1
“Corso, ricorso,"2 the great cycle,
history's tanmaya spiral, a recurring groundhog daze.
“Scienza Nuova,"3 a new way,
a science of the social, a science of the real gritty.
“Verum ipsum factum,”4 we comprehend what we make.
The praturn looms, the wheel turns,
ASI on the tarot cards,
the present tense with ancestor worship.
Listen closely again, closer,
and you will hear them shaking cities with new modes.
^1 "The nature of things is nothing other than the coming of them into being at certain times and in certain fashions": A quote from Giambattista Vico's *The New Science*. Giambattista Vico: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Science
^2 "Corso, ricorso": Italian for "course and recourse," representing Vico's cyclical view of history.
^3 "Scienza Nuova": The title of Vico's major work, meaning "New Science."
^4 "Verum ipsum factum": Vico's epistemological principle, asserting that truth is verified through creation or invention.
