1.
Words–
making Unreal
the Real
or–how can I explain?
Through Metaphor
through Simile?
But that is just saying
this Thing is like
that Thing
and really
no one accepts
the Explanation.
A Thing is
like Itself
And nothing else.
2.
Moving through
letting go
forgiving
and forgetting
leaving out
unclasping
ungrasping
and saying
you are
something
incomparable
no explaining
no unsaying.
This one
is not like that one.
Moving through
moving to
accepting
knowing
and being
settled in
hunkered down
bunkered down
entrenched
enfolded
home.
3.
brains
unfathomable soup
swimming in
substances
secreted
by glands
those unreliable
arbiters of
love
and war
fires
and sparks
lightning storms
producing thunder
and, sometimes,
rain
no maps
no goddamned roads either
swimming in
canals of
channels of
emotion
and habit
and experience–
conditioned —
no oars
Annisa Tangreen