Struck By

the first half of William Bronk's "Metonymy As An Approach To A Real World"

Whether what we sense of this world

is the what of this world only, or the what

of which of several possible worlds

--which what--something of what we sense

may be true, may be the world, what it is, what we sense.

For the rest, a truce is possible, the tolerance

of travelers, eating foreign foods, trying words

that twist the tongue, to feel that time and place,

not thinking that this is the real world...

--from Life Supports: New and Collected Poems, Talisman House, 1997.