" What are animals for? "
How base the answer
must be!
The true north
of my nature
lies in
the question.
The sublime
too, yet it was
only a chance
association of words,
as when the
mountains at night
are coupled
with the image
of Borges
poring over ancient
documents
for the language
of mystery.
Implausible
but in this
strange genus they
belong together.