Beyond Your Otherwise’s, Therefore’s, Or’s and But’s

Beyond your Otherwise’s, Therefore’s,

Or’s and But’s abuts a lexicon so strange

that when you first encounter it, its symbols

mount your lips and range into your mouth like

army ants, implant their pincers in your tongue

and shoot their serum up your nose into your brain

and all you know from then on is the sometimes

gentle, sometimes raging rain of glimmering

bewilderment. You smell the spirit in the letter.

Sometimes it makes your poems better.









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