Stalks
by Jay Paul "From hearts and brains sprout the stalks of night" --Paul Celan (tr. Joris) there is no brain exactly as mandated there is only night just as there is no heart exactly as delimited there is only night because the brain inhabits a darkness as the heart inhabits a darkness because the night is darkness the heart of darkness which is no heart because the heart itself by itself is darkness too the heart pumps darkly the brain thinks darkly the dark comes down across thoughts that are born not of the brain but somewhere else entirely like the darkly heart or the darkly tree reaching down into loam communicating with fellows among the fungus...