Neuroses do not respond happily
to deep breathing.
This is a law of the human
and its body and mind.
Is the human more
than body and mind?
It's a neurotic question.
A question that tilts at
souls and the unknowable.
For you, are mysteries pimples to pop
or altars before which
you kneel and whisper
for insubstantial guidance
an indivisible hand
without fingers or humor?
Breathe too deeply
and the images that spear the mind
and wrestle the body
will happily take over
the human,
giving over a human
to the sense
of total or absent
control.
Roman Ryan 