Using Particles Of Intellect Comments

This is another example of a WHOLE MIND poem - emotions + intellect = delight and learning. Your walk through nature is both an emotional rush and an intellectual study. To my mind, you are following a grand tradition here - that of Thoreau who combined emotional delight in nature with a scientist's curiosity. And there's no trace of that diseased mental mood he called LIVES OF QUIET DESPERATION. I've been reading Louise Gluck's huge Selected Poems the past several months -She rarely looks for the bright side of things. Her concerns are elsewhere and I admire her courage and persistence in the face of profound life trials. But we need your vision of delight and desire as a model to achieve such wholeness of being.