Intercalate

My faith and my fate debate and conflate,
intercalate, bare each other, forbear,
for they are quite near identical twins
working away working their ways in me

as is often the case, it is not clear 
what I am saying, what I mean to say,
what is the particular butterfly
my eye chases with no net as it flits

I create my fate as, like a slow slug
I leave …