The Way of Wonder: I Did Not Devise the Way

Monday, December 2, 2013

I Did Not Devise the Way

I did not devise the Way

of trading bodies.

I did not invent orgasm.

I did not formulate sunrise.

The puffer fish was not my idea.

I never could have imagined cancer

or made up maggots.

Who ordered the butterfly?

(Caterpillar-turns-into-butterfly!?)

Stars and giraffes also are given.

The Higgs Boson—I don’t even know what it is.

My hands: equally mysterious.

Death is as sudden and surprising as birth.

I don’t blame any god.

I am the whole secret saying this,

using language I inherited.

I can smell you on me.

Astonishing, the nose!

I am not a knower.

I am a lover.

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