A book-length poem and metaphysical mosaic by Fuller, written as he commissioned and named a new ocean-cruising sloop in 1968. It moves through reflections on intuition, brain and mind, love, and two reworked versions of the Lord's Prayer.

Intuition

The following thoughts regarding the acquisition, commissioning, and naming of a new seventeen-ton ocean-cruising sloop occurred and were inscribed throughout the morning hours immediately preceding the moment at which the craft was lowered by a giant motorized sling into her design-destined realization of waterborne existence at midday, July 31, 1968.

Core structure

Intuition: Metaphysical Mosaic
Brain and Mind
Love
The Lord's Prayer
The Lord's Prayer — Second Version
Resources

Main ideas

The poem records thoughts inscribed as a new sloop was lowered into the water, July 31, 1968.
It turns on the survival of humanity — "if humanity is going to survive."
Macrocosmically, experience teaches both the fading of remote yesterdays and the unseeability of far-forward events.
Fuller feels intuitively that the Lord's Prayer was digested through ages from many philosophies in many lands.
He records how he thought through the Lord's Prayer on June 30, 1971, at the American Academy in Rome.

Why it matters

Intuition shows Fuller working in verse, treating intuition itself as a metaphysical faculty central to design and discovery. The reworked Lord's Prayer and the meditations on brain and mind connect his structural thinking to his spiritual and ethical reflections.

Sources

intuition/ — book project directory (repo-local source tree)
intuition/index.md — synthesis index for the source project
intuition/intuition.md — full book text