Serendipity

The Three Princes of Serendip, involving a camel, a horse, and a dog, which the eponymous Zadig can describe in great detail from his observations of the tracks on the ground. When he is accused of theft and taken before the judges, Zadig clears himself by recounting the mental process which allowed him to describe the two animals he has never seen.

Poems of Serendipity offer a series of unexpected fortunate discoveries:
Your heart is resting beside a cool riverbank
spinning a spider’s thread full of
mysteries, as your soul sips the remains
of its passion from cooling springs.
Drooping flesh filters into our lonely room and fires
an ache in your heart, resonating with
love-worn words overused that race down
turbulent labyrinth of forgiveness.