Poetry’s Parentage

Language makes phenomena
Equivalent, makes worlds words,
Allowing substitutions,

Metaphors, analogies.
Suddenly, this, which is this
And not that, never will be

That, can be imagined that,
One word compared to a word,
All words being only words.

Language, like death, is a great
Equalizer, one that can
Create inequalities

As easily. Modeler,
Ancestor of binaries,
Algorithms, building kits,

Language turned dirt into bricks,
Blood and oil into plastics,
Parent trickster of all tricks.