We avoid traps, the jagged rocks
\nin order to avoid being snapped and bitten and torn.<\/p>\n
We accept being snapped and bitten in traps
\nin order to accept reality<\/p>\n
which is (partly oh partly)
\nto accept the experience of being snapped and bitten.<\/p>\n
Or do we avoid the traps
\nin order to avoid experience at all?<\/p>\n
Which is to accept a single trepid experience
\nas though there were no other.<\/p>\n
Which is to accept no Other:<\/p>\n
Like the graceful Other of the prow of a boat:
\ncanoe, sailboat, rowboat, dragon ship.<\/p>\n
What other form so descends
\nfrom a history (unwritten\u2014<\/p>\n
controlled only in experience
\nand memory\u2014experience experienced)<\/p>\n
that ascends from form to the same form\u2014
\nthe composition of function and form.<\/p>\n
Never static. Never quite changing.
\nLike the soul. The molecular constancy of water<\/p>\n
made to glow in rippled wakes
\nbehind a grace of controlled interference.<\/p>\n