pathwork

the poem is a path
I guess
we start
then move down or around
the page
depending on the form

the program functions
we can have translation
if we may

there are pools
from which to sip
and
forfend against the traps
that only rhetors
might
have set

but let the way be easy
through a story
though
the story’s difficult
or
fearful
yet there is a frame provided
if not for comfort
then
to keep going

and you’ll go alone
though
you don’t have to
as
it’s a form for speaking
after all
and even in a hall
to tell of what goes on outside
inside

so where
or how walk on
the path
is wide enough
and narrow
to discover what is offered
only as
we go the step around or
valley
toward what’s next

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