If You Mean to Visit the Misty Marsh Woods

Here, let’s build a small gap in the wall.
It’s alright that it’s an indoor wall.
Nearly everyone lives in cities,

If not in suburbs like frogspawn, now.
Real garden walls are for public parks
Or for the privately frightened rich.

Any interior wall will do,
So long as you don’t punch all the way
Through to neighbors or your other room.

What’s the point of a gap in a wall
If it isn’t even a portal?
Well, that’s exactly the point. Portals

Go all the way through, either to more
Ordinary world, like any door,
Or into nothing, except in tales.

The number of tales about portals
Has grown so great it’s unbearable.
Just create a small gap in the wall.

Kneel or sit and stick your head in it.
Now you are properly in the wilds.
Whatever’s going on in your head

Is as much alternative cosmos
As you get. In such a position,
What wildness can memories project?