Corporeal Order. Why Disequilibrium.
Why I keep knocking: body, body,
body on the door
of abstraction. Why
else would they (the trees) be
there? Why ears if
not to know how the cave
feels? Why heart
if not to know the mountain’s
slow gold pulse? Still dancing
we each wreathe
need with garish
and garlic-like
felicities. Unnh. Like Biggie said.
Mouth like a mountain, chock
with gold. Or in Ye’s case ice. White
cloud, blue streak. The way Nietzsche
asked, “Can I live?” How Cage
said, “It’s like that.” To pray
for something so unlike
peace that it might
slow war to
amble, stumble, and then