Tyro
Theoretical Task
Imagine yourself natural
in the day like grass—like ice.
Ontological Data and Problems
The Tools of Protection
below are in no special order
and none is stronger than any other:
opinion, ignorance, God,
applause, face East and draw
deep deep deep deep
thy breath, get out, insania,
hieromania, philosophies
of resignation.
Properties
Exquisitely happy
and sad.
Indicators
An anger you can really taste.
A face you can remember.
The Variegated Sameness in the I-Network
How splendid, this distress,
in its matter-of-factness.
The Fourfold Ontological Dimensions of Certainty
One: The body.
Two: What’s broken
so far.
Three: I feel my feet
and start walking.
Four: Always this making
bullets of wounds.
Naomi Clewett’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Georgetown Review, DIAGRAM, Puerto del Sol, Black Warrior Review, Southern Poetry Review and elsewhere. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Alabama and lives in Lexington, Kentucky.