who is this poet happily distance running
through maze labyrinth landscape of mind
where mind poet thoughts are one...
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I also believe thoughts need animal personae, or else they'd be empty...to dance within animal masks or feel distant kinship with them, is to know man's place in Creation.
A single metaphor may perhaps parody one leap of thought, but the workings of thought require a natural system for metaphor. Without metaphors thought would be empty code. With metaphors, thought entwines with reality's fabric.
To restore fluidity to thought requires the atmosphere's transporting currents and the givingness of a rain cloud. Fluid thought enters into all that grows.
Thought-water flows into the germinal forms of all growing things, and each thing flows from the thought of itself.