Invisible
Disassembling the invisible
has its own mathematics, different rules apply,
the process has its special calculus
because the unseen is huge and impudent,
powerful and odd
When we were dumb and ignorant
the spirit wind would startle us, would frighten us,
shatter shelters, split the sky with light
—unseen, but real, we named it God
The invisible has popular cachet,
being as it is among us
in the interstices of the known
It seeps through everything
It colors the fabric of our thoughts
as ultraviolet works to build our bones
and ultrasonic whistles through the atmosphere
alerting some
it fills the trellis of our oughts
persuading us we’re not alone
.
by Jim Culleny
7/14/14