Wednesday, July 28, 2021

DOUBLE WONDER

Most of us spend our time 
never noticing

that time isn't ours 
to spend; 

that each moment belongs 
nowhere, 

has no target
to acquire. 

But what 
kind of compound 

slight of hand 
could it take? to realize 

that the feeling 
is only an impulse, 

and an impulse 
is precision-

made
out of nothing.

*

Imagine comprehensible immensity. 

Imagine
the Grand Canyon

filled to the brim 
with religious 
memorabilia—

Christ himself 
would be gobsmacked 
at the sight

of Judas Iscariot—
of all of us—oblivious, 

just walking across 
unharmed.