subtext

• •

no one leaves the cave

cenote-2

 

make a random reference

to some allusion other

than the one here now

 

and if one misses it

from ignorance or

one’s own obscurity

 

the dead grey eyes

hear in the fissures

more than conceived

 

in any normal conversation

in which one’s a part

minutes arrive like hours

 

and all the inhabitable

caves encompass the other

 

(January 17, 2018)