Two Unknotting Problems

Alogon, Play of the Waves

Freedom’s enemies,

Effort and purpose,

Patrol to prevent

Contentment’s escape.

If you are pointless,

Then they are pointless—

They’re irrational—

They’re freed—you’ve escaped.

The irrational

Should remain unnamed,

Not for a secret—

So this can escape.

Anomos, Theater of the Air

What begins as negation

Before being posited

Feels more valuable to state,

Fits more approximately 

Phenomena without speech,

The experiences named.

Snugger than this, the not-this,

Greek terms beginning with “a,”

English words starting with “un.”

Because what is named is not

The name, and the name is not

Less than its own history,

These moments soaking in sun,

Listening to canyon winds

Tune themselves on the old grass

Already nursing new shoots,

Composing phrases in lines

With no one around except

The squawk of an unseen jay

The groan of an unseen jet—

These moments when this excess

Existence wells into names

Such as sun, canyon, winds, grass,

Continuous and alone,

Can uncover what’s less than

Uncommon, more than unknown.