(Known Miniscule) + (Unknown Immense) is . . .
before the sun rose, they rose,
they were soft-spoken to shadows
so as not to stir them
they let blood and would sometimes sweat and spit.
when shadows were too cruel. they prayed for light
tree’s sunlit shadow: big trunk moves in wind
limb dangling, brushes asphalt
ah! Matryoshkas, nesting shadows easily swallowing
tiny others,
……………….huge devours small
shadow peas in a shell-game of
ballooning unknowns in onion-like layers of doubt
balanced upon a fulcrum, at rest in a dissatisfying
but absolute equation:
(the known-miniscule) + (the unknown-immense)
are ever balanced
………………………………………………………………………… So,
Jim Culleny
©11/15/15-Rev. /6/25/23