The Differences

The differences are spreading. And spreading. But spreading differently. The differences differ in undulation. Transparency. Opacity. Sometimes a difference resembles a mastodon and the mighty animal moves with the elegance of massive muscle and bone, a studied rhythm, an intelligible squint in a large deep eye, the blink of a god, a deity with tusks. And this is different from a clam, because a clam doesn’t have tusks, but it does have a stomach, and a kidney and gills, and a mouth and a foot and labial palps, and moves by foot if on land and by currents if submerged, and these things are different from one another, and keep spreading, the differences spread into indiscriminate objectives, and flurries of pertinence, and recoiling and spurs. Icicles drip from an ichthyologist’s hut. Drumsticks are dissimilar from pedals, but this doesn’t mean that nibbling is international, it means that nibbling is emotional, and there is a face gazing out of a window. A face is different from glass and glass is different from news and this makes the differences spread into pluralities of bread and energies endowed with goodwill and estuaries where improbable biologies find sustenance and sunlight and this is different from butter. Necessities are sometimes necessary but the difference between a hardship and an adversity is in the economics of meaning, which is grooves and history, and rolls forward on a contradistinction. The axis of the world is greased by change. The sky today is different from yesterday’s sky which was different than the sky that occurred last Sunday, and these are differences that distinguish one day from the next, and spread into a thesis of flux, and clouds, and fingers of air gripping a bulb of words, no two words alike, and each a filament of light.