Bio
Anglo-Danish by birth but Bahamian by upbringing, Robin Helweg-Larsen has been published before in the Shot Glass Journal, and in literary magazines on five continents. He is Series Editor for Sampson Low's 'Potcake Chapbooks - Form in Formless Times'. After decades in British Columbia and North Carolina, he has returned to blog at formalverse.com from his hometown of Governor's Harbour.
Robin Helweg-Larsen
Layered Understanding
The Universe with which we grapple
searching for structure, meaning, is no apple
with glossy skin outside, substance beneath,
where deep within its core it meets our needs
to find its meaning: seeds.
No, it's an onion - peel off the outer sheath
of sensory impressions,
and you uncover explanations
coming first from mystic revelations
and then from faith's and Science's professions.
Research from Galileo through to Quantum realms
reveals, and contradicts, and overwhelms
until you take away the final layer
and find: there's nothing there.