024 Not To Deny

Not   to deny    that something
sits in “shrubs” or “shrooms”
to prompt the speech of the stars if
the Possible    open it     if no bullying facticity
overrun the Possible     and if no fantasy exhaust it
in locationless expenditure. The cover of Time Magazine (June 17 1997)
presenting the inward strangulation of the
vertical almond-eyed aliens
that see but are not in the seeing   seen
whatever the judiciousness and humor of the journalism—
are here among us