DEEPER

DEEPER

Often at night, sometimes
out in the snow or going into the music, the hunch says, 
“Deeper.”
I don’t know what it means.
Just, “Push it. Go further. Go deeper.”

And when they come talking at me I get
antsy at times, but mostly I stay put 
and it keeps saying, “Deeper. 
This is not it. You must go deeper.”

There is danger in this, also
beautiful fingers and I believe it can issue in
gestures of concord; but I cannot control it,
all I know is one thing—
“Deeper. You must go further. You must go deeper.”

© Dennis Lee, from “So Cool,” (Key Porter Books 2004)