I kept seeing the word “immanent”
In the things I’m reading and which, at first,
I thought was a misspelling. I figured
they meant “imminent,” something near
or about to happen. Soon. Something even closer
Than the thing that’s not. And so I nearly
underlined it in a book, marking it as a typo.
But it’s not. That’s not what they meant.
“Immanent” means inherent in something else.
It’s what’s inside the thing that already exists.
Proximity is irrelevant. Instead, it’s
the core that counts, that thing that pervades
what already is.
Sometimes denotation can be so satisfying,
The context so clarifying. A simple definition,
the next best thing to Enlightenment.
