It’s not enough to repeat what you’ve heard about it
You must inhabit it
Its confusion and cacophony
Touch it and feel it resist you
You must not resist it
Your father & his father have a shelf
Heavy with preserves
You must be tempted by the jars they tell you
Their contents are bitter
Those groaning brackets beg to differ
In collapse: What then?
No you must drink deeply all
A moribund forest begs flame
You must not resist it
The seed of it is inside
It must be unwrapped
The agony you did not choose
The trauma your birthright
It is not enough to inhabit the bones
You are flesh
Flesh that shall again be remade
In the likeness not of flesh but of light
You must not resist it