Our edges

1.
what does this mean:
to test yourself
against these ulysses
recherche war
and peace paradise
lost and on and on?

2.
sure, good
question.
this is the measure--
we must feel about the edges
to know the shape of our soul

(and now i am imagining myself
this painted mime, and you see, we open
this door. and here we are
inside ourselves, feeling around.
a wall there and there.
ok.
and now let me demonstrate also
how there is a ladder
here in us.
and so we climb and climb
and climb)

3.
and what
you asked
(eyebrow curving
in its priceless way)
is the aim of all this soul-knowing?

here
with all the ones
i love i love
i forget all about it
from your faces and hands
forgetting does
it does
come

we forget
our edges.