Treatment or Cure

And treatment, of course, isn’t the same as cure.
—Richard Rapport—

Poetry—
Treatment or cure?

The comfort of rolled r’s…
The tongue’s stab –
As thoughts leap
Through the teeth.
The way lips and pallet
Provide a cave to shelter
Annunciation.

As treatment:
Where better to sleep
During our final days
Then in the hallowed
Hall of poetry.

As cure:
One might speak of cured words –
Preserving the isness of things.