It’s a blender, a pincer,
no, a hose, a hoe, who’s a tinfoil hat surely
with a probe, a drill, an angling toy, a thingie for the soil

observant’s earth’s world’s reality:
by cleaving into it we measure it?
if the universe invented the gaze.

where love is neighbored
by exploitation as spillover desire
where care is marbled with ferociousness

our skull’s garden to occupy
a crust to extract as a model
in designer tools built to debuild

a stone to lift, is one to prophesize upon
parts as constructionist decomposition
hardened by trembling us into acceptance

there lie the inner worlds I created
transitional dimensions to be nurtured
pruned, released or quietly dealt with

there creep the peeping and eagerness
to control what is being built in there
to aid refitting to your gospel here

to house the asylum intracranially
and codify the norm, map, correlates,
and timber that imagined maple tree

and water a sprout
and unlock a muscle
and extend a mind

you can measure what I think uncontrollably
transcode anatomically
and reduce to words mechanically

yet, when will you measure
what you olfactorily
mean to me?

                          —animasuri’24

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triggers

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