If
an Aivilik Eskimo is given a photograph
the wrong way up,
he doesn’t find it necessary
to twist it around.
Bugs
dig under the skin; leaving an itchy mound, swollen,
to a tiny red eye. Aging skin draws
a
map to hidden treasure; hair waits for
the next Ice Age.
I am and I am not is the riddle that misled Oedipus
into his Freudian dream.
As the path is uphill, I thought I'll start at the other
end,
only to find that way is uphill too.