The Truth of an Assertion

Is hardly the whole,

Hardly brings it down

If it’s not there, false.

Whatever is close

Is dangerous, Howe

Asserted in verse,

And there’s a something

To that assertion

Other than fact-lack

As universal.

Letting things get close,

Letting things sneak up,

Trusting something close

Could be dangerous.

Whatever. It’s close

To true, it feels like

A weir carrying

An edible catch.

It’s a suggestive.

Suggestiveness is

The power of blunt

Assertions, more than

Any factual

Truth. What’s true’s almost.