Radiance

You found the young mole skittering 
near the rhododendrons
and said I wished you’d held him because you would
have felt how soft his fur is.
 
Did someone say equation.
 
Meanwhile, men are constructing immense hanging curtains made from reclaimed
tea bags. Others insist we are just recycling toxins. In other words,
the mailbox is the new garbage can. And the sky
still washes the dirt out to the sea.
 
Entire texts are circling and mirroring.
 
The first secret to figuring out the labyrinthine city of Fez is the rule of five,
claims a New York Times reporter:
5 calls to prayer. 5 pillars of Islam. 5 obligatory institutions 
in each neighborhood. 5 types of design on religious buildings. 
 
Try and tickle some part inside, you implore.

             1872 BLACKMORE Maid of Sker v, 
; and verily she began to laugh
and play the blabs by kynde. 
in Spirit Pub. IX., 376,
I want you to give those yonder an
inward tickle
narrow strait
Chart S. E. 
between two
see him clinging to the bowsprint
No sooner were we clear than
 
A panorama developed. The Greek word for maid: Filipineza. Hong
Kong schools: trilingual. Freegans
scavenge free-meets, flea markets. Kynde? Figuration of open 
gaps and. Blah. Blah. What
 
about this emphasis on departure (we keep returning to)? Show me

scrolls of haiga—haiku with illustration—the one called 
Man Eats Sweet Potatoes please—
and zisha teapots made of purple clay 
(dug 10 meters down in Yixing). Yes: only in Yixing.
 
Equals. That is the tickle.