From "I Will Out": "I See the Lines"

I See the Lines

Mine or someone else’s, lines

do disturb by just sitting there,

however you attempt to jounce

them into action outside their

accepted sphere— yet, I follow lines

out, year by year as I get older,

even if “towards” means nothing

but some vantage point I’ll

never see. When you or I read

lines the right way, everything

which means is tinted by

a fiery glow, against

the inscrutable nothingness

of things bald, if the fire were

false I wouldn’t touch it, but it isn’t—