Asymmetric Warfare I.

Asymmetric warfare. . .
but is the metaphor of conflict
not man-made?

Can we find a female description
that will both
explicate and answer
a question
which is hidden?

Rather
- is this suspended query
and contingency
fully visible in the light
of forces outside perception?

And what then is this word - visibility?

Is it merely the cloth of language
- that has obscured the thing itself?

Perhaps you have better words for it?

Or can read it in woman's blood and milk and childlove
without figuration into letters or sounds?


James Piers Taylor, 21/06/2006 Essex