Paradigm minds

(tough as table

tops) rise until

old corners melt

but every time

they thinks they ‘know’

- edges appear –

desperation,

hold on tight!

Hard-thought-bubbles

protect themselves

from sharper words,

blades or bludgeons

desperate to

keep the same old

boring surface,

inner structures.

Thought-viruses

(precise in a

small jelly-brain)

will finally soft-

-en by ageless

power; blood-red from

our pumping bellies,

adam’s apples, heartbeats.

Rough Mystery

Van Gogh 'God took a terrible lot of trouble with this world study of his' 

Van Gogh says the whole world’s a painting study;

with form and colour, pencil dust

roughly pushed by fingers into arcs

on paper, shining, planned, unplanned.

Stepping back,

loving the action of it,

(and all the time it took)

I bet it feels good to taste

and smell and see

all the nascent parts

emerge and, listening, be.