PART I
THE ROAD TO THE VAMPIRE LESTAT

Tempting to place in coherent collage
the bee, the mountain range, the shadow
of my hoof—

tempting to join them, enlaced by logical
vast & shining molecular thought-thread
thru all Substance—

.…

Tempting

to say I see in all I see
the place where the needle
began in the tapestry—but ah,
it all looks whole and part—
long live the eyeball and the lucid heart.

STAN RICE
from “Four Days in Another City”
Some Lamb (1975)