Intrepid Interior

Language and imagination manage
Exploring your memory together.
Language does all the mapping and flagging.
Imagination rearranges finds,

Not, as you often think yourself, to make
New, strange, and wondrous things that don’t exist,
But to see what emerges when you change
Configurations, what you didn’t know

Was there, tangled in cobwebs and luggage
Memory’s got in attics and closets.
They’re rummaging in search of solutions,
Good friends, language and imagination,

Doing their best with your memory’s mess
To get at a way out that won’t wreck you.