When I was young maps
still had blank spaces, terra
incognita
we didn't care to know what
was there.
The wizened oak drove
its roots one thousand miles
north
of the river
that drowned its old rhizomic splay.
Creativity is not to be
found in datasets, but in the
inspired
leap of an embodied human mind; a mind
that dreams, a mind that
can pull its own plug.
"I
think therefore I
am"
may mean
that the
flame
of
our
sustenance
is subsumed by "this treacherous
fault line
of the knowable."