Serendipity

SerendipIty: poems defining a series of unexpected fortunate discoveries.In chapter three of Voltaire’s 1747 novel Zadig, there is an adaptation of The Three Princes of Serendip, involving a camel, a horse, and a dog, with this Zadig can describe in great detail from his observations of the tracks on the ground.Today, anyone who sees only the print of a cloven hoof might conclude that the animal that had left it behind was a ruminator. This conclusion is as inevitable as any in physics and ethics. This footprint alone, then, provides the observer with information about the teeth, the jawbone, the vertebrae, each leg bone, the thighs, shoulders, and pelvis of the animal which had just passed: it is a more certain proof than all Zadig's tracks.The poems in this book, reflect the miraculous powers that we all have - each human individual - within us, if we would just believe in our imaginations and follow the clues before us and not our prejudices.