22.3.13

for Bill Griffiths























nature's analogies
are magnificent
hieroglyphs of truth



   bees

are a model of unified action
and symbol of the good



   wasps

are a model of duplicity
with a useless nest



   vegetables

this tableau is as faithful
as the vegetables
which display the disorders
of free love



   cardoon

an honourable woman



   artichoke

a fallen libertine



Charles Fourier, tr. & ed. Jonathan Beecher and Richard Bienvenu
The Utopian Vision of Charles Fourier