Tunnel

One or two of them

  I don't know what they are

        I mean who

 so I look
   much longer at them
   One or two of
                            them

     I can't decipher

        decipherment does not

         entitle
         engrain
         ensorcel

   the thing is there as a stone
     as a philosophical monograph

         the delight in a stone
                challenged to prove
                     its exisssstence
               (hiss of rain
                        through its hot pores)
                       
                         through language

         The tunnel is speaking

           Not language itself

                    but the tunnel through which

                         language
                                        do go