root canal

This part is the root. The part that shows
our teeth help give shape to our faces.
The diagram shows It is not a science.
We make some sounds, laying it underground.
It may be down below the surface.

I have loved you
very close together
farther apart.
in such a way that when it moves down
one would try to drink wood or build a fire
There were riots,
But most houses do not burn down.
the movements of the stars
were kept warm in a different way.

the hardest material in the human
is held down, is hidden in the jaw.
held down a longer time.
and nerves are found
cutting, tearing and grinding
forced from the lungs out of the body.

A strange thing happens
organized armies, a dinner plate of silk,
memory, imagination, ability to think,
they come to seem life-size.

2003