“Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.” Mark Rothko
“Here,” he says, over his shoulder
as he leaves the room,
passing a key behind him.
But a “key” is just a metaphor.
Until you swallow the flame,
“fire” is just a metaphor.
The spirit sends us
anecdotes and riddles,
Zen koans. The body dances,
although that, too,
is an anecdote of the spirit.
Do you need to know
why you dance, or why
you sometimes cast a backward glance
where there is nothing to be seen?