Abstractions Realer than Dragons

Abstractions are more
Imaginative
Than vivid pictures,
Concrete images—
Memory’s palettes

Allow descriptions
More brightly alive,
But you can’t describe
The unseen as if
You see it, unless

You blend and conjure
Pictures of what’s been
Already in brains.
Yet, you can blandly
State impossible

Abstractions no one’s
Ever encountered,
And people will get
Some clue what you mean—
Immortality,

Divinity, null,
Peace, infinity—
Say those and you have
Created nevers,
Dragons from nothing.