A Poem's Bow to Art

 
       Rabbi Leib 's reminder in yesterday's post that "nature itself" is "the greatest wonder we can know" is echoed in "Notes from Prehistory" by Linda Bierds, a poem on the cave paintings at Font-de-Gaume in France.  Bierds says, in a beautiful phrase, the purpose of art is
                              "to venerate the living world. "