Wednesday, April 12, 2023

READY OR NOT

Birth, crisis, 
catharsis, death—this 
is how 

history 
happens to you. 

It may be true 
that our consequences, 

though unknown 
and intangible, still apprise, 
still linger. 

But what good are 
possibilities 

when none of them 
is free to use? 

It may also be true
that the universe 

is some beautiful, delicate, 
multiplistic lattice—

but a spiderweb 
viewed from an improper angle, 
is either invisible, 

or else 
nothing special.