“Traté de ahogar mis penas… pero las condenadas aprendieron a nadar.”
[“I tried to drown my sorrows… but those I’d condemned learned to swim.”] ~ Frida Kahlo
At night do you hear a fiddle sleep,
a wheelchair creak? The body works
until it doesn’t. The body limps
to the end of the road until it can’t
wait for the bus anymore. And closure
is hard to come by, even when it might
signify an end: perhaps to suffering,
to pain, uncertainty, ordinary tedium.
And what happens to pleasure, to ease,
the consonance of one limb working
as well as the other; the wondrous
machine giving off such poignant sounds
only when surfaces are scratched
by a needle? What now, in the pause
between one impasse and another, except
the admission of what can’t be known?
In response to Via Negativa: Nearer my god.