Sunday, May 03, 2020

Knowing



Knowing

It spirals and dizzy the mind
Tracing graph of expanding minutes into inevitable
Striding the days in escalating vortex that expands and expands
Into infinite  
Is it pulling in or is it pushing out you never know
It throbs and churns like a mobius snare in the subconscious 
no end, no beginning  
It settles on silent days to blooming hibiscus rushing in the breeze
Sneaks at purple-rumped sunbird’s rap on the window pane
It’s curved beak shaping the time at its leisure.

The thought splinters to search million nooks
A brilliant flash coalesce the space onto the edge of time
An instant awareness
Sets things in place
It was so obvious 
(shucks I knew it all the while!)  
If you know you can’t tell, if you tell you won’t know
If you choose, it disappears, if you ignore, it appears
Like fireflies it knows when to flicker to synchronize the dance.