Convergence
Perhaps too for the fawn
led by its mother,
a bizarre edginess
to her bearing and scent,
the first time across
a headlight road—
world-dilating it felt
for the boy, joggled awake
predawn, to trudge
through a store for coffee
and icy forest holding
his dad’s shotgun.
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)