People ask me where I've been and I am mystified.
I mean, I don't know if they mean recently-
or ever-
neither of which is that fascinating-
which is completely untrue.
Nobody ever asks me this.
I have recently considered how Primo Levi said the glaciers melting
in green varicose veins
could not be described.
He reminds me of Pluto in nebulous ways,
after all, he said it actually tasted like sky.
I guess we have all tried to touch rainbows,
and I think most of us prefer shiny things,
not semi-transparent or deflecting items such as prisms
or iridescence.
Honestly, I am still trapped,
so tell is all I can do.
It takes determination, geometry
to hold on to other crystals like granite,
becoming solidified, and structurally sound for a time
bond even, but really just passing through.
This is how too,
rivers are reminiscent of veins
and the passing of blood,
like what is liquid or solid
and divides me by you.
Painting By J.E.H. MacDonald (1873/1932) [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
