What sense
is there in studying
only one insect—
a discrete bee
instead
of a swarm? Even
as a kid, I was taught
to imagine myself
as a jet
instead of a fleet—
instead of a company
that makes jets.
Today, I still look
from a second
floor window
and think of
the physics of flight—
not the frontiers
of the possible, but its
rhetoric—
how there is no way
to measure
the space between units.
Last night there was
so much grown-up talk
of edges and distinctions,
and yet
here I am on the fence.
The vastest extents
of my littlest bits
are anyone's
educated guess.
