I was warned about this
Things feel fierce when you try to talk in three dimension
and cannot wrap your words around something that is not yet there
the square foot depth of real things:
soapstone traveling the surface of the counter
walls, this thick
cupboards here.
Somehow because you can’t explain
that which you can barely see in your minds eye
everything feels like a soda bottle
after it’s been shaken up.
You talk and talk and then walk away
the plans spread out the table
the lines and measurements in graphite,
easily erasable,
unlike the tone you use to say
the things you’re not quite sure of.
Every hardware store clerk will nod
and say he’s seen it all before.
The disconnect between two minds
trying to see the same thing
from different angles.
If geometry were a language, it would be easier.