12x16 inches; Pen drawing on acid free textured paper (Click on image to enlarge)
Kosmos
Who includes diversity and is Nature,
Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and
sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth and the equilibrium
also,
Who has not look’d forth from the windows the eyes for
nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing,
Who contains believers and disbelievers, who is the most
majestic lover,
Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism,
spiritualism, and of the æsthetic or intellectual,
Who having consider’d the body finds all its organs and
parts good,
Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her
body understands by subtle analogies all other theories,
The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics
of these States;
Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon,
but in other globes with their suns and moons,
Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not
for a day but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
The past, the future, dwelling there, like
space, inseparable together.- Walt Whitman
