Calms.

Firchau, Molson, 2008

NATURAL WORLD

There is nothing in the picture

you don’t see. That is, there

is nothing in the picture, but

you can’t see it, as there

is also nothing beyond the picture that

you can see. As you watch

the picture and begin to notice

more, the nothing grows less, but

never less than nothing. For you,

the picture has no separate

being, and, like you, the

nothing in the picture exists.

We teach a child to see a ball, a tree,

a dog, sitting at the moment.

The dog knows little of our confusion, and

calms us with her eyes.

Dan Gerber