Newton
‘He who sees the Ratio only sees himself only’
Skeins of light ribbon through the sea,
threading downwards by tidal fathoms
until their remnants reach the floor
and offer pale illumination
to the isolate Sir Isaac
Newton, bent double in his world
of materiality, tracing
with compasses, oblivious
to the delicate ornature
of the life forms upon the rock
on which he sits, naked, having been
imprisoned here
by William Blake.
© 2007
Salt Publishing Limited 
