Now…    think of the sun     as preemptory     to a certain understanding     of the sun    

think of horses     felled     think of field mice     and think of egrets     flown     as forms

of living mineral     think of all their bodies     are capable of     as you would think of

a person     you could love     given different circumstances     consider cold wrought iron    

think of toy dogs barking     in their sleep     as a muddled premonition     intended for

the next two readers     who peruse this     after you have     forgotten it    

entirely     imagine     what the three     most crucial things     you currently forget

might be     think of black ice     milk     sea worms     think of sandalwood    

think of all the continents     as one     fortified abstraction     think of various types of    

burning     buildings     and compare them     with arthritic fingers     think of thinking    

as a Laundromat     adjacent to a nail salon     think of all the times you thought    

to say something     and didn’t     as a parallel     think of  bone meal     think of death    

ballads     battery acid     consider what it would mean     for an ocean to regress    

think on the word     anemones     the color     lily-white     think of how you’d write this

differently     if you were writing     now     think up     something else