Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Meaning's Gates

A spine is a spiky line,
A spinney spiky bushes,
An entangling thorny copse

Of brushy, scrubby plant life
Where some creature’s spiky spine,
A long dead doe’s, for instance,

Might lie palely in the shade.
How you name things. How you warp
Us to subdivide your thoughts.

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