The Demands of Appearances

—a new poem, and way too abstract. Συγχώρεσέ με, ναι!

Have a look! All appearances insist

upon one’s making something of them, one’s

making something new with them in that broad

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drama comprising the mind’s persistent

colloquy—its unceasing yammering—

to find in all that it observes a nudge,

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a compulsion to keep the ball rolling.

Cognizant or not of its obdurate

re-tooling of the thick matter at hand,

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the mind makes ever more than it receives,

or the mind colors every apparent

scene with its own muddled pigments lifted

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from its yet roiling, discursive palette.