Aryan Kaganof
Essence of the Peahen
In the peahen’s universe
every fragment
is a luminous detail
Thrust into the apocalyptic
turmoil of our car-park
the peahen must have felt the earth
trembling beneath her claws
The analysis carried out here,
of necessity cursory and summary,
is sufficient proof, all the same,
that any sort of scientific understanding
of the essence of the peahen
is attainable only in the degree
to which we resolve the fundamental
principled and methodological problems
which a study of this peahen
places before contemporary readers.
In the peahen’s universe every fragment is a luminous detail