Thursday, 22 August 2024

Cartesian Cogitation

'It had never occurred to them that intelligence as intellectually conscripted as theirs could be an eclipse' 

- John Moriarty 


I found arguments and debates easy to climb

and symbols like the hostile sheer face of an ice mountain 

difficult to pick at with an axe

heaving myself across precipitous edges 

dropping myths accidentally down into labyrinths

threatening precipitation, strong winds and avalanches 

of traditions and known ways of life 

on top of muted metaphors 

flattening them into meaningless words 

with the wisdom squeezed out of them

condensating into rivers other people step over 

in search of more life and, dare I say, more living

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