Physis

What at first is whole and one

A timeless unity but life has not begun

As is nature’s way one is cleft in twain

Once it is split only duality will remain

Gaia will want to split and splice

Then the one will have been cut thrice

From ying and yang dancing starts the mix

Then doubling will thus be six

So then double six a dozen makes

The months a year in passing takes

Then the hours twenty-four in a day

Ours to seize or oft to fritter away

Whether in the branches of our human tree

In our ever-exponential progeny

Or the mitosis of our cells so numberless

And the subtle divisions of our consciousness

The explosion of the original singularity

Which is the beginning of our chemistry

Whether doubles, fractal, Fibonacci or Phi

The patterns of Nature never lie

J. S. Webb, Kanchenjunga, 2019