The Fold

“Let us,” he said
“make man,”

as if  he had to ask
someone’s permission

even if always
only

his own.

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To practice is to repeat
what has not yet
occurred.

___

We get signals
from the future.

We’re invited to grow
by entwining,

twinning.

Being duplicitous?

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A rose by any other
rose

is its own
paradise

of luminous
folds.

Source: Poetry (July/August 2020)