Memory and Impulse

the casting of runes
awakens a subtle remembrance
a faint recording in substrate

the impulse to organize is unrelenting
to name to define
becomes an effort to dominate
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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Tsiluma Avatar
October 3, 2012 at 12:36 AM
Nice write! Interesting way to put it - you can't dominate that which you can't define. I guess that's the gist of human existence.
Brown Avatar
October 1, 2012 at 8:25 AM
Today is the start of a new month and a new week. I am starting to read what looks to be some exceptional writing this morning. So glad I was able to read yours Mark. Love, Carol
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