Confounded Map

Saint Paul, 6 July 2006

for Cindy

The innermost fold

of the only map

to your wilderness

has instructions

how to unfold

Instructions I’m told

are a series of frames

cartoons with no captions

and footprints with no feet

that might divulge your bearings

It’s this folded paper

held close to my chest

I never attempt to unfold

lacking the very directions

your confounded map conceals