their own
sudden epiphany,
but often,
what's required first
is something more like
a revelation
in reverse.
That is: not
in a flash,
but something more
like a dirge,
some judgement
or conviction
about which we
used to be so sure
gradually loses all its
upward momentum
and lazily,
inexorably falls
back to Earth;
like a very nearly-
grand slam crack
that drops
an inch before
the centerfield wall,
some suspicion
or assumption
that we used to call
a fact
gets softened
and lightened into
just another fiction
before it can
smother us all.
