The Law of the Unforeseen

Poetry. Edward Harkness writes about family, history, family history, the natural world—its beauty, its degradation—the strange miracle of consciousness. Nothing is off the table. In fact, everything is on the table, including the kitchen sink. They move from the personal to the universal, to the quickened heart of shared emotion.

"In THE LAW OF THE UNFORESEEN, the law Harkness speaks of requires us to know now and then. We walk under 'the trees of unremembrance,' so that we may know who we ...