Gist and marrow

Have you been led away from your innermost kernel, the center
where everything sticks? The same has made me
sick: turning round and round to see the blind
ginger knot getting smaller behind me.

I have, on occasion, hi-jacked my way back, gone
plunk into the dark of my own stomach, and come up
with nerve-tangled hands.

So few empathize when you go after
the sacred channel and come up
looking like you’ve been
fucking a plate of spaghetti.



jade