to think about
than it is to see
why darkness is known
as the absence of light—not
the other way around.
Be it ether, waves,
or particles, only substance
can beguile us,
so it seems that
even life's biggest puzzles
must contain pieces.
When night falls, for instance,
we tend to focus
on the stars,
and not on the unnerving
fact of their bone-
whiteness—
or the loneliness
which chokes space to tarry
emptiness between them—
or how the vastness
of that very emptiness
only exponentially increases.
