Thank You for Sharing

People want to talk.
It’s striking how much
People want to talk.
You can feel their urge
To express themselves,

To share anecdotes.
You feel it yourself.
It constricts your ribs.
It commandeers thoughts,
And, as people talk,

You start to forget
Their fragility
As meager creatures
No larger than deer
Who live a few years

And how much it costs
Such creatures to be
The creatures who talk.
You only know you
Want so much to talk.

Casita Kamo’oalewa

Your room becomes a moon
Of its own when it glows
In direct morning sun,

Doing what all moons do,
Catching the relayed waves,
From eight minutes away

In the room’s case, bouncing
Them back a little ways,
Photons dancing on space.

Reflections, reflections,
Neurons only handle
So much indirectly,

And, still further removed,
Frayed reflections jostle
Through exceptional points,

Nonreciprocal flocks
Now, quasiparticles,
Quasisatellites, mind.

Critical Experience

To become conversant,
Even knowledgeable,
About experience

You have never yourself
Experienced, is that
Not what language is for?

The original book
Review was a report
Of a reality

Belonging to someone
Other than the person
Who then repeated it

As if it were something.
Known. Every book lover
Knows more books from reviews

Than cover to cover,
And all who have language
Borrow most of those views.

Same Makes Change

Without the frame,
There is no change.
If it all went
No one would be

Who was left there,
Same sight, to see,
And all the small
Samenesses fix

Views for all change
To be noted—
Change, the same change.
It takes two to

Make not one one.
That which is was
Not what was, which
Was what is. Chame.

Nor Would the World Be Kind Without Them

Humans would madden you less
If you weren’t human yourself.
It’s your own humanity
Supplies you the madness,
Makes you imagine humans
Both worse and more important
Than humans are to the world.

Some days you feel everything
Wrong with your life is human.
Some days fellow humans save,
Mostly from fellow humans.
But it’s you. You deceive you.
You surge with evolved response.
Humans aren’t running the world.