Susan Hawthorne #151 speaking otherwise

speaking otherwise
it's what you do in a poem
telling stories from
another point of view

speaking otherwise
a view from below
or sideways
the work of poetry

or philosophy
in a Socratic key
it was the muse
Kalliope in charge

of epic poetry who
took on philosophy
as well    poets as
philosophers of

the world both
speaking otherwise
allegoria mythic
ways of seeing