Testing on Steel and Glass Poem by Carl Rakosi

"If you open the brain
from whence sprang Solomon and Aristotle
and separate the lips
in the fissure of Sylvius
a triangle of cortex
will appear.
This is the Island of Reil."

Well put, anatomist.
We are all careful, men of earth
(a blind man can sense a post).

Thus Newton pondered on falling apples
and a Mixtec carved a humanist in jaguar bone.

"How happy I was,"
wrote the scientist after a long illness,
"when once again
I had something to investigate."