In my mind
there are objects,
which are transcendent things
built out of my sensory
immersive experience
of the world and then
constituted in my thinking
that grows beyond experience
like a germinating plant.
These objects,
these psychic forms,
connect and combine
and bounce off each other,
in multiple and varied ways
and form and inform
my feelings, thoughts,
impressions and the
map of my place in the world.
And they create patterns whole,
and new structures tall
and ligaments of meaning thin,
and these objects that
belong to my mental world
mould who I become
outside and in.
For David Hume,
who shaped my thinking about thought
and about the nature of experiencing
19/10/2016