While

While poets write surface words
paradoxically pe
net/rating
consciousness
w
here feelings go deep,
I b
low a/part language,
w
ords and syntax,
with p(h/r)o
ton guns,
accele
rated with
sl/ashes and paren(theses
into ele
mental particles,
underlining letters,
h
idden meaning,
qua(i/r)ks, st
range associations,
new, clear spin, [apologies for the pun]
w
ormholes
to o
ther dimensions,
and w
onder how to relate
to poets
of color, sound and s
mell
fr
om my tiny soundless universe.

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