Arcane Medicine

Notebooks: October 2020

ARCANE MEDICINE


The problem is
that books are not
a magic strong enough
to put the fire out.


I have no other
magic.


Like crumbs you’ll have to foll
ow through the lang
uage falls apart. 


I’m left inside.
But you, you


could get out.




*


What I want to do 
is make a potion


– or rite


that could help them/us/THUS
understand


our entire (cultural) body writhe
and heal.


A map designed to get the toxin out.


*


Like writing to your future boy 
who’s in the past, and grows
to find his present lost.


In a word, 
time travel.


Going back to let
your ancestors heal
so that some other might 
unspool before [it is] too late.


Some medicine.