You could throw some huge ball of metaphor
up on the roof, throw your speculation
out of sight,
and days later, ramifications
could come sifting down,
mundane meanings
needing to make place
for shifts in thought,
questions of what’s important
being reconsidered,
and finally things will start to settle,
maybe some truths have been uncovered,
maybe some clarified, some polished

Everyone who does literature
is trying for some such effect,
trying for truth, anyway.
It can be my job, as reader,
to receive what is offered,
to integrate it, whatever way I can,
with what I know.

©Wendy Mulhern
February 12, 2022