NOTHING LIKE

NOTHING LIKE

nothing like
poetry

to mess
        with

your
sense
of identity

flood
your memory

rewrite
all that stuff
you thought you

knew about
yourself

never
       called
into question

now reshaped, reconstituted, in
the very flow of
the words
themselves

and thus
as collateral
damage

nothing
as might have been said before
somehow, somewhere

nothing
quite like

what we may
well find ourselves facing
called to
account for

in such
a space,
in this place right here