Monday, June 7, 2021

EXPLANATION

Why do we 
put so much 

faith 
in explanation

even though, 
like the wind 
through the trees, 

we can hear 
others groan
and creak as it rushes,

and we can see
from the looks 

in their faces
how quickly 

it 
dissipates? 

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At best, our speeches 
trickle out little

prickles 
of heat 
 
like the friction 
gradually 
realized between 

those raggedy actions 
we took 
in the past 

and the reams  
of their consequences, 

which have yet 
to materialize.