Ivor Cutler

This year it is 300 years since the great Carl von Linné was born. He is the founder of the nomenclature used to name animals and plants. Nothing seems more natural than to start the celebration with a poem by Mr Cutler! A big thank you for the photo to DJ Bass (who also tells about his meeting with the poet on Flickr).

What?

Where
man has
not been
to
give them names
objects
on
desert islands
do not
know
what they are.
Taking no chances
they stand still
and
wait
quietly excited
for hundreds
of thousands
of years.

Ivor Cutler: “A flat man” (Trigram,1977).