A fable of fluid/fractal becomings

I don’t want to know
the world underneath
the teeming city of crawling, oozing
tentacular beings
that you call “truth”.

Forgoing depth
conscientiously objecting
to drilling down
and down

I buckle my shoes
cover my basket
and skip across the surface

Stef Rozitis is a high school teacher in Australia. They have 3 adult children and therefore desperately hope that our species begin to work together to save this planet. Read other articles by Stef.