CANTO 4 Ponder underpinnings

Ponder underpinnings

that have brought us all

to a life-threatened state.

For instance, language.

Is it the problem?

Is it the solution?

Is the problem in the source of language?

In the shift from ? to language?

Let me explore.

Is the method electronic,

or any instant transmission

of the multiple offerings of the verbal font

(as if all those swarming flounder

could at once rise to a poem’s bait,

airborne school scaling finitude),

or rather is it of the jelling kind, where

in the frothing and bubbling soup

certain combinations agglutinate and then harden

as if taking on spines and torsos

that flex with ambidexterity?

Consider: