catharsis, death—this
is how
history
happens to you.
It may be true
that our consequences,
though unknown
and intangible, still apprise,
still linger.
But what good are
possibilities
when none of them
is free to use?
It may also be true
that the universe
is some beautiful, delicate,
multiplistic lattice—
but a spiderweb
viewed from an improper angle,
is either invisible,
or else
nothing special.
