On the Seawalla community gallery of new writing, art and commentary hosted by Ron Slate

Fool Reversed / Let Go

            joy is painting cracks with rainbow light

            or kintsugi —

i like to control things

is the crevice in need

of filling up —

perhaps a great emptiness

is what is needed —

space for the crack

or crevice to sound

its vast sudden

triumph

            — or what is a mortal cave?

does the hole conjure

desire to complete it

                        fill it

                        give it meaning

maybe escape a little death

perhaps the great empty

is not wanting – perhaps

air & its molecular

strengths –     gases

            & light

dust & bacteria

photons & organisms

all effluvial catastrophes

suspended over a

            great   open      —

perhaps

            this     is         joy