Ad Ignorantiam

Convocation 3

There’s a fallacy that most
of us contemporary knowledge-
based and scientific-minded
folk believe: that nothing’s thought
to be irresolutely real
unless it’s proven by our own
experience. Of course, that thought,
examined in the light of abject
objectivity, reveals

its limitations: we ourselves
are limited by thought itself.
Realities we’ll never know
are much too numinous to number.
I mention this in passing as
I look through my binoculars
and spot the eyesight of an eagle,
visionary, otherworldly,
but connected to my own.

~Son Rivers 2007