# Stan

Traditional meaning: keystone

Meanings when upright:

- iconoclasm
- either affirm a belief or abolish it
- (in middle of reading) you're on the right track

Meanings when inverted:

- an intention to keep a promise

There is not a known Norwegian or Anglo-Saxon rune poem for Stan.

A modern poem:

> Either with full throat believe
> or throw it to the streets.
> There is no room for ambivalence
> when it comes to making yourself free.
> If you yourself do not care,
> then who will care for you?
> If you wish not to escape this hole,
> not even the strongest can your body exhume.

> You're striving to decorate your jail
> so hard no energy is left
> to break through the Veil.
> So bogged down with minutae
> of strangers hundreds of miles away
> you forget to attention pay
> to the wife
> that lies
> beside
> you.

> Lethe, I with burning heart desire
> that you hold me as your only standard
> if you insist that veneration to a deity
> is the natural state of humanity.
> If you have to succumb to your nature
> as a vessel of pure action,
> the only caretaker I will accept
> is the only one who shares your passions.

> Are we doing this
> or not?