Always an other, even
When oneself, aware
Of oneself as one self—
Divisions and elisions
In simile, motion’s
Viscous moments;
Coiled currents curl
Into a helix’s wisp:
You are there, as I—
You not I, as
I not you, as well—
All collapse equally
Into a difference
Of syntactical revision
(April 14, 2017)
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