What Mean Means

Go. What play is to art.
What drift means for the genes.
How heat helps to fuse. Wait.

Go back a step. You can’t
Mean means when what you want
Is to say what mean means.

To make known your own wish.
To want to think through words.
Grey skies on the last day

Of school at home. Light rain,
Sleet, and snow. Free the mind.
Who does that? Who is mind?

The board is thick with white
Stones, no chance for black stones
To come back. Play the game

Like that, and yes, we’re game.
Play the game all grey stones,
No board, cold rains. Which means?