Sitting Down To Do It

To know the apparatus works –
its engine is in gear –
accept, forgive its fragile quirks –
its means of fighting fear –

to sit it down and ask that it
articulate the soul –
then watch it make a task of it –
pursue that foolish goal

without one bit of evidence
that it is on a track
of anything: improvidence
in front of you, and back –

like Jonah, in his sleepy whale,
while it was biding time
before deciding to exhale:
catastrophe!: you climb

atop the blast of Orca’s sneeze
and there you are, suspended
on some abrupt propellant breeze –
indifferently upended;

and yet the apparatus works –
its engine is in gear –
you’ve grown to love its fragile quirks –
and how it fights the fear.


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