The Hole In The Floor: Over Time And In Layers

The Hole In The Floor

November 21, 2008

Over Time And In Layers

Posted by Fr. Mario Arroyo on Friday, November 21, 2008

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Dawn Maureen said...: I needed this for my blog. :-); January 16, 2009 3:59 PM

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Richard Wilbur, the second person named US Poet Laureate, wrote a poem entitled "A Hole In
The Floor." In it he describes how a carpenter has left a hole in the floor through which the author looks. He becomes aware of the sources that feed the room as he experiences it.

Naive reality forgets the sources that create the experience we have of life. It is only when we look beneath the surface of superficial reality that we can really "see" life. The room is literaly kept in existence by being fed from a multiple of sources that are not apparent. Once you awaken to this, the room is no longer so taken for granted.

"For God's sake, what am I after?

...the buried stangeness
which nourishes the known:

that spring from which the floor lamp
drinks now a wilder bloom,
inflaming the damask love-seat
and the whole dangerous room."

"A Hole In The Floor" by Richard Wilbur

http://propositumdei.blogspot.com/2007/03/hole-in-floor.html