the puzzle

"See, right now I'm living in a puzzle, the box lid having just been taken off, and I stare down onto the pieces, some clear, some hidden, and they work together somehow, but I'm just looking at them, smelling the woody pulp and wondering, all the while knowing its destined to do so, how in the world ill make it all fit together and look like something real. Even the box lid sports no picture to guide me." -Lisa Samson, from Quaker Summer