did the vikings really know or did they just pretend
as they pretended dolphins were mermaids or worse
manatees...i suppose we each pretend that if we cross
it all would emerge, all knowledge, all thought, all love
but like the vikings we know that the minutiae is more
real than the mermaids we seek or the sky as it opens
and decides that today the frozen bridge between this
plane of existence and the one you are on needs to melt
slowly away....
