Journal: The Pocket Muse, p. 15
Invent an Opposite
What is the opposite of a kiss? a spurn
What is the opposite of green? brown / red
What is the opposite of a train? train station / mountain
What is the opposite of cake? pie / meatloaf
What is the opposite of a fence? expanse / wall / mountain /
field
“The Opposite of a Fence”
Frost tells us that good fences make good neighbors
sarcastically,
so in the absence of a fence,
can you still be neighborly?
What if instead of a fence
there exists unbroken expanse:
a field,
a desert,
a frontier?
Who, then, will be your neighbor?
Anyone who can reach across the openness
stretching across the distance,
no boundaries
to break the divide.
Come closer....
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