| Poetics V: Dicta Guarding gateways to the gods, the glad refrain of the ancients came to glorify not-this, not-that Nay saying the particular to favor the absolute, amounted to saying, What is, is unsayable Still, if you cannot speak of what's utterly real, then silence must have the last word But if saying what cannot be said, seems impossible by definition, 'tis necessary by default, that is reason If that logic gives succor, a cryptic "mum's the word" calls not for the mute but the metaphor Assaying seems what the mystics of old could not abide, that means taking apart Saying means to point justly, a mean aside So, every this and every that, by pointing, provides a portal to the More-than-the-sum which, being deified, defies being torn asunder After all, silence having the last word speaks not of what's really real, still, silence speaks the real |
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