During finals, who's to judge?

Finals Week

The Final in Philosophy is fill-in.
There are no multiple choice questions
So one can guess.

     A bone scan and a lung CT
     Will provide the answers,
     Either right or wrong.

Predestination?
Free will?
Beliefs do not alter the outcome.
Will I find
Metaphysics or metastases
This finals week?

     The sculpture class critique
     Of my bronze pieces
     Provides a grade for college records.
     I have three poured, buffed and patinad:
     A bent blind woman with her aide,
     A bar-wired wall of fingers
     With frantic small hands
     Climbing it,
     A priestly figure formed 
     From fragmented desert skeletons.

In broader life there are three pieces
I have birthed ---
Three beings who will also
Outlast my shadowed flesh.

     Is there a teacher or divinity---
     Some trinity perhaps---
     To judge my works
     This finals week?

May 22, 2005


Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson.