For example,
one of many lenses
one of many ways
to look.
An idea I brought to bear
and it failed
or with some degree of success
it “worked”
tentacle magic
it materially
changed
the condition it wrapped around
Is this your wake-up call, over
and over and
wake up again
and wake up again
and wake up
again
opening the lid
it’s not the same lid
every time
the lid
is a little different.
It wrapped around
a space that was a
context, unconditioned:
likeness of daffodil. Discriminating
or making a hierarchy
is just the beginning
of our shared
The Lens of Porcelain
Rebecca Wolff
Rebecca Wolff is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently One Morning[Symbol] (Wave Books, 2015), and a novel, The Beginners (Riverhead Books, 2011). She is the editor of Fence, and lives in the Hudson Valley, where she is a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany.