In the evening I pour wine to celebrate
another day’s survival. My motions:
up to down, left to right. Glass
from cabinet, wine to mouth.
And then I return to the page.
The character for stone, ishi,
portrays a slope with a stone
at its base, and I take comfort
in knowing that as my knee aches
at the thought of climbing, ishi exists
in descent only. A volcano belches,
producing hi, fire, rising above the
cone, while earth, tsuchi, lies firm
beneath the shoots pushing up,
outward, and ame, rain,
consists of clouds and dotted
lines and the sky above. But if
wind is made of insects and
plums, do I assemble new meaning
without fact or wisdom, form
or assumed inflection, left to
down, up to right? Consider water,
its currents, its logic and needs.
Consider truth. This is how I think.
Listen to a reading of the poem by the poet:
You can find more poetry by Robert Okaji on this site or on his blog HERE . A collection of Robert’s poetry is available in his chapbook “If Your Matter Could Reform” which was published as part of the the National Poetry Month series by Dink Press
Bonnie McClellan-Broussard 
And, it would seem your logic, like your knowledge, seeks its own level.
It, too, is fluid. 🙂
Robert being brilliant as usual & drinking while thinking & vice-versa, as usual.
Thinking, drinking: the unforced rhyme!
it is brilliant drinking and winking both.
God bless you.
read my poems they may allure you too.
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Great poem! Politics is a lot like the beginning of time creating things that did not exist before, through volatile eruptions and spewing fire and destruction across the landscape. Assuming new meanings without facts, wisdom, or implication. That pretty much says it all!