Monday, April 28, 2025

ODE ON INERTIA

The way each heavy-
with-holy 
water droplet 

hits 
and resounds 
upon the surface of a pond 

like the transient-
yet-infinite 
drone of a gong—as if, 

now
and forever, it was
the only one—

honest-to-god momentum 
looks a lot 
like its opposite.

But curious
enough, we only know 
what's honest

by the way 
it leaves us
lingering on

for so long 
after it's 
already gone.