whenever we speak with the angels
rilke writes that we should
speak of common things
of the ordinary objects
that are truly knowable to us
however i am not often
in dialogue with angels
nor am i often concerned with things
in the age-old dichotomy
of perception versus reality
i will always side with perception
not that the other isn’t important
but rather that the portions
we can experience
free from perception
are rare indeed
as well as patently boring
it is much more fruitful
to provosculate upon those things
which are mediated by perception
therefore we can no longer let being
be the finale of seeming
rather we must recognize
that seeming gives reality to being
and that being gives birth to saying
but now is not the time for the sayable
it is the time for speaking
what is unsayable therefore
we must continue to probe
the unsayable the unknowable
for these are all that is
worth troubling ourselves to say