The Problem with Imaginary Creatures

The problem with imaginary creatures
is translucence: always coming in
and out so incrementally

and incidentally

from here to there
to barely anywhere

they can’t be totted up as fact:

they aren’t long enough intact
or rather too long not becoming what

they seem to want to be,

at least as long as their inconstancy
remains a constant,

to achieve the work of re-construing

what you’ve clearly misconstrued –
until the only flick

of anything

you can imagine doing
to them would be rude.

Which might

be shrewd.
Stick 'em where it’s lewd.








.