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a moment is a poet’s cliché of a singular blur
tentative as an airborne bubble
hard as hammer-blow to thumb
moment: the smallest thing able to contain an unimaginable universe
…………… a universe able to imagine the smallest thing
as instantaneous as the passage of dust motes and Himalayas
as ephemeral and solid as those —as exquisite, as cruel
here is one now: .. joy . . . gone
here is one now:… pain .. gone
………………. as swift as that, as if a bullet grazing an ear,
………………. as if a celestial flash in a thunderstorm
………………. brief as a thought spark instantly forgotten in regret
………………. as if love lost and won again
tiny as a lepton crammed with . . . . next
Jim Culleny
07/26/22