Mind

Emergent from complexity
it is feral as an urban tom
that crawls out from underneath
a parked Toyota’s rusty belly
to gnaw an unsuspecting rodent.
It's uncontrollable as a headstrong mustang
whose scaly tongue defies the iron bit
and drags us where we would not go
or disobeys our most direct commands
until our thinking is a feckless gallop.
Its logic often is illogic,
its ideas tangential or like a toddler defiant
and the times we would most rely on it,
it slips away and we can’t find it.

Author writes prose and poetry in NYC USA under the pen name Jan Cronos.