The exact
way in which
you matter
could never
have been imagined
by the genius
of the past.
There was
no way to know
which minnow
would be the brave fish of evolution
or into which rivulets
each droplet would flow.
Just like now—
at the bleeding-
skin thinness
of this moment—
how there's no profit
in diminution,
no sense
either in disavowing
or wriggling back
to the ocean.
