About
A man is only half understood when we know how everything in him came into being. If that were all, he could just as well have been dead years ago. As a living being he is not understood, for life does not have only a yesterday, nor is it explained by reducing today to yesterday. Life has also a tomorrow, and today is understood only when we can add to our knowledge of what was yesterday the beginnings of tomorrow.
Man can suffer only a certain amount of culture without injury.
This is a living tree of poems.
Poems grow out of other poems, like organisms, and out of the life of their author. Cut off from their source, they wither and die. Here is your chance to view them in their natural habitat.
The name "culturing" comes from Darwin. In "On the Origin of Species", he notices differences between birds kept "under culture" and birds left in the wild. The phrase "under culture" troubles me. I don't want to be like those birds under culture. I want to participate in culture, to make culture, to be a culturer. Thus "culturing" is my manifesto.
I wouldn't mind hearing from you. Please spread these poems far and wide.
There is more to come. Welcome to my life's work in progress.
