Monday, September 22, 2025

NO MATCH FOR MY INTRANSIGENCE

How could I be 
like the sea? 
When I'm angry, 

do I grow, at once, both 
overlarge and hungry; 

Do I heavy myself
ceaseless at the grungy 
rocks of reason, 

then blot candor's sky 
with the foam of my fury, 

withering grace 
with briny excoriations  
at the rational edge

of each shore 
where I go? 

How could I be 
like the sea, I repeat
and demand 

that you answer me—though 
I don't want to know.