A Coleridge quote relayed by Robert Peake grabbed my interest the other day.

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science.

While I have much, much more to say on the topic of poetic science, I need to keep this brief. A tanka feels appropriate right now:

the world doesn't need
thesis or anti-thesis
to feel seasons flow
we need everything even
if just to keep our loose hold

Again, I'm not using the great RWP prompt. I'm stocking up on prompts. I fully intend on circling around sometime, but time is always the gotcha. The one fully non-renewable resource keeps slipping away from me.