Three Poems
Rose Knapp
Mythos of Reason
O we all bow down to the golden calf
Of Cartesian Enlightenment Reason
Modernist optimistic American Progress
Capitalist imperialist cishet white Reason
Yet has the Enlightenment failed us all?
Is Secular Humanism & Science The Way?
Do they satisfy the deepest philosophical
& searching spiritual longings of Humanity?
Perhaps Reason & Science are
Metanarratives like any Others
World Tree
Peaceful Pluralist peacocks frolicking
Under Nordic Shamanic Hindu Daoist
Egyptian Zoroastrian Gnostic Shinto
Christian Jewish Islamic Buddhist
Mayan Aztec Native American
Greco-Roman Confucian
One World Tree with Many
Diverse roots & branches
Mystical leaves growing
Dancing in vibrant reds
All Great Religions &
Spiritualities teach
Peace, Love, &
Respect for One
An(Other) within their
Cores, their essences
Mysticisms preach these cores
As well yet are misunderstood
& deserve to be embraced by
The wider spiritual cultures
Transhumanism
Post humanoid stage
Beyond mere fleisch
Techne will save us
Transcend Nature
Artificial Intelligence
Upload immortality
We will enter our
Next evolutionary
Era erasure of the
Primitive species
For We are the Now
Transcendent New
Enhancements
Enchantments
Rose Knapp is a Neo-Dadaist, transfemme androgyne poetess and sound artist. She has publications in Fence, Maintenant, IceFloe, Hobart, Superstition Review, and others. She has poetry collections with Beir Bua Press, Hesterglock Press, and Dostoyevsky Wannabe. She lives in Minneapolis. Find more of her at roseknapp.weebly.com and on Bluesky @roseknapp.bsky.social.