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# Reverie
**by Greg Zeck**

*For Jennifer* 

Dawnhead flashes improbable ground 
of essence. Then thunder. Then leap 
from bed to computer only to find
philosophical twaddle: Aristotle 
and his to ti en einai (Metaphysics, VII, 7), 
that whereby a thing is what it is, 
fundamental ground of the soul, 
whatever the soul is and who knows? 

Return to bedrock, then, wife’s soft
round rump rising with her breathing:
content, for the time being, all we have: 
pull duvet up, pat ground of essence softly, 
softly murmuring love, love, love.
 
