Contrarian Reception

And we miss more than we see,

Wrote Max Finstein long ago,

A common misconception.

It seems like it must be so.

All our prosthetic senses

Preach to us about wavelengths

And what’s going on beyond

The doors of our perception.

But miss is a tricky term—

At any given moment,

Sure, we must be unaware

Of most of what’s going on,

But the wand of molecules

That constitutes a body

Constitutes an antenna

That’s as tuned as anything

To everything underneath,

And we see more than we know.