transmutations

it speaks to him of covert mystery,
anomalies, transmutations and loss

words, images, traces of bodies,
his fascination with metamorphosis, enigmas,
bereavements, death and about-face conversions,
his advance relationship with the sublime
and his associations with unanticipated political forces,
he makes for a delightful and adorable antagonist

with their emphasis on structure, discipline,
disappointment, the confession to a predilection for
things that aren't intended to be seen, heard or written,
human action has a way of impacting on time

so we get a glimpse of the way
these kinds of histories disappear,
through malicious intention and fear,
in the worst sense of the word;
a sanctuary, a comfortable hide out from reality