Seven Steps to Better Listening
       

We perceive difference
        where none exists.
In the exercise the green & blue overlap simply
        without true interaction.
On the following page the yellow block
        does not obscure the newsprint
because there is no newsprint—
        the layers are lies.
Likewise, in the pine barrens
        when the red blur shocks bright
against the depths between the trees
        the patterns we think we discern
in the sugar sand are naught
        but desire. The inner violets
though apparently of two shades
        are actually alike.

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from Bone Bouquet
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