Poem No. 10: Learning

Maybe what we're working towards
is in actuality
a working away from:
the process of work
in reverse.

Away from merely fitting in,
away from impositions
of meaning, away from
power, authority, and
all opposites.

Instead we work towards
communal navigation,
the creation of values
not assigned but
produced through
the hard labor
of action,
thought,
reaction,
sensation
emotion,
intention,
intuition,
elucidation,
illumination,
on and on.

(Hard work
finds rest
in its softness;
the unknown result.)

Don't initiate value;
it arises on its own
from our minds, bodies, hands,
wingtips, tentacles, veins,
hair, claws, manes -
all seeking something inherently beyond it,
uncovering what's true, making it real;
a finding out; a discovery.