EVEN IF WE DID
If we could unwind that brain,
discover its world, the response
of sense from A to Z, the place,
time, weather, and human
condition
If we could trace the course
of its myriad streams
to the first rain, the slow
gathering of waters
in pools and springs
If we could collect the whole
evidence grain by grain,
the words, numbers, symbols
that shaped the color and sound
of mountains
If we could record the dreams,
the chain of centuries from dusk
to dawn, those testings of beliefs
that broke the link and shook sparks
from the sun
If we could model its twin
as a lasting monument,
a brain with all our findings,
long after men, their myths,
wonders, gifts
