Here you will find thePoemSeen in a Glassof poet Kathleen Raine
Behind the tree, behind the house, behind the stars In the presence that I cannot see Otherwise than as house and stars and tree. Tree, house and stars Extend to infinity within themselves Into the mystery of the world Where whirl the wheels of power whose pulse beat Out of nothing, out of night, Leaves, stones and fires, The living tree whose maypole dance Of chromosome and nucleus Traces the maze of boughs and leaves. The standing house of stone that poured In molten torrent when was hurled Out of chaos this great world, And suns whose kindling begins anew Or ends the course that tree, house, world move through. Upheld by being that I cannot know In other form than stars and stones and trees Assume in nature?s glass, in nature?s eyes.
