One

Robert Creeley

Robert Indiana

One thought of integrity
wants it to be
an intrinsic, indestructible me, a one and only--

but misses it's one
into which all has gone
and from which all has come--

cannot look back,
see the star's, the square's lack,
the interminable circle surrounds the fact.

The 2River View, 2_4 (Summer 1998)