Of you and me, which is grammar? Who context?
One swims the other, like angled fish and water;
perception and thought; yearning and regret;
or, as schismatics claim, 'regret and yearning.'
You subject my predicate to censure,
for you doubt my verb. But I doubt the rules:
my drift goes deeper than mere convention.
This is anarchy without the chaos,
the harmony of a heart's unfettered syntax
found in unaccustomed syncopy.
Though mysterious, it's not obscure.
I understand, I know this idiom;
but I decline to translate, not from apprehension
of an inappropriate declension;
but, knowing how inexpressible this expression,
I choke on broken voice and turgid words
and rely on you inferring what I imply.
You'll just have to transform
this poem to glean my meaning. There you have it.
2009
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