All the living world is like the fractal spikes
on the great body of equilibrium structures – the Sea of Unknowing.
Yet all is not yet in the Sea, for the Universe is young.
The fractal spikes are paths of flight from the Sea,
driven by different laws, branching and branching,
like a great tree, dark against a white background,
twigs on branches, spikes on twigs, emerging, not merging,
reaching for the Infinite but not quite reaching it.

Now I see an upside-down tree of light reaching down
against a dark background,
to the; right-side up tree of dark on a light background,
reaching from the Sea of Knowing.
The fingers meet, touch, and pass a current of love,
from God to Adam, from Adam to God.
Capillaries join the tree of arteries
to the tree of veins, red to blue,
with vital flow between.
The Love-Union of Mind and Matter.
And the Word is Flesh and the Flesh is Word.