The path to the dentist is something William Carlos Williams
might have paid attention to. The upside-down jigsaw piece
was perhaps the sky, one shard of a complex map anticipating
the details of tomorrow. Ants are lined up along a fat beefy worm
like hungry piglets. It’s the colour of bloody meat. In the war
I guess it was what you could afford, but what of all that life
below this artificial crust? A quarter of the world’s plant biomass
lives under. How do all those lives survive suffocation, lack of water?
Reality has to account for the meanings we give, we generate,
the meanings we imagine, that we are told.
