by Harvey Lillywhite
What Sitting Has Taught Me
This feminine “spark,” though never directly defined, is described,
at one point, as “the centre of some different order and system of life”
These words that pop
Up out of nowhere,
Weapons of mass
Instruction, colonize
My mind.
If I could speak
To you wordlessly
Perhaps through my eyes
What I would say
Would have no I
Just the pure stuff
Of—can I even pronounce
It?—Love. How we
Are all one body.