Hold on, hold off, same thing

Here’s the how of holding:
the things we hold:
cards, convictions, close.

Some cards are stamped
with a potato
and potatoes possess

(you may not know)
a collective
consciousness.

Participation is mandatory,
pretty much,
if you’re a potato.

You got
to think thoughts
down dirt, dreamed

together, for the big
idea of Big Potato is
Potato.

The World Potato conjures
each petite patate
to know itself.

Well, that’s cards,
that’s holding.
That’s how

you know a thing.
You grasp.
You close.

© Dawn Macdonald