we can't think?
Are there
elevated spaces
where the likes of us
are not invited?
Or dispositions
so base—winged, fork-
tongued emotions
with scales
for skin and garish
horns on their faces—
that to sanction their
attainment would
be tantamount
to damnation?
Such a blanket blockade
is hard to imagine;
we are permitted,
after all, to conjure—
if not dragons—
then at least our hearts'
content of their pictures
and descriptions.
