Minor White Exhibition

Museum of Photographic Arts

Balboa Park

One More Week Before the Exhibition Closes

Rainbow chance
Accident

                is ever symbolic or never?

For what am I
                       spared?

To live till I pick
   any straw answer
 select the reasonable twig
 or grasp at nothing at all
 Before I am permitted to die?

To live so long
I can not resist turning chance
 into symbol
Nor help but twist accident
          into sign?

—Minor White