The Brain Floats
(...)
The brain floats on a lake of words
just as once the world was held
on elephant-back above a sea -
subversive rhyme suggests that herds
of metaphors with sharper beak
tear at the silence of unease;
a philosopher feels on his cheek
the tears of which he cannot speak.
(Peter Porter,
do poema "Whereof We Cannot Speak")
