Parmenides & Death

Parmenides went to the underworld
like a child's hand
plunged in
water.

And what he came up with
was a mossy stone
dimpled with
periwinkles.

But more unimportantly
reason
has been read
from that

Rorschach;

so that what was found might
be found unfound
and the gem stay rhinestone
to the mind made of rhinestone.