Four read-throughs and I’m still beyond my pay grade with this “Tenuous Beginnings End.” The fact I read, no studied, the complexity smorgasboard of this tells how fascinating I find it to be. It’s as chewy as this morning’s coffee, too stout because I errored in grounds to water ratio due to reading glasses not handy. Well, I choose these nuggets from this writing: “…story drenched,/ thread bare vanishings” because it sounds juicy, especially ‘story drenched’; stanza #2 “like rivers…” points me to the last word Empedocles with the reinventing (his reincarnation theory); “clumsily leaping to/octogenarian futures.” feels like an apt description. I enjoyed having to look up (in addition to Empedocles) the word ‘pate’ for contextual understanding as applied here….and finding a goblet of fun with that word meaning ‘top of the head,’ but with only two symbols being added above that word ‘pate,’ it would mean a kind of food, which then I enjoyed the next line containing a ‘foodish’ term = pureed, even though here it could represent experience. This whole reading gives me this much to write about that which I found to be beyond my pay grade. Bravo for that, Odin! ~~ djl