Insidiously Somehow Contriving by Some Way or Other to Represent to the Imagination

If reality really is one
Consensual hallucination,
The consensus is that there must be

More to reality than is seen.
The conviction that there must be rules
Beyond the patterns humans measure

Is as human as taking measures.
How many passages of fiction
Gasp beached by their imaginations,

Struggling to say how something was weird
Beyond words, beyond experience,
Reduced to begging readers to bear

Responsibility for raising
To mind the unimaginable
Glories and horrors they’re suggesting?

When someone gestures to worlds beyond
The known, they’re trying to turn your head
From all your felt details to the blank.