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SEEING EVERYTHING

Submitted by joshua mertz on October 25, 2013

The way the light falls across skin
And the trees
Black against the bright darkness
of the night sky
Time as a perception of breath
Limits and infinities one and the same
Then the moment passes
And the magic collapses
And all that is left
Is TV and the bills

Comments

joshua mertz

October 25, 2013

"If the Doors of Perception were cleansed Man would see Everything as it is-- Infinite" says William Blake. "Git 'er done" say a lot of yahoos in North Dakota and elsewhere. Perception and perspective are key.

Michael Mayhew

October 27, 2013

Is it October that makes your muse rattle the chains?

So often poems build from the quotidian to some larger philosophical or cosmological point. I like the way that you start that way but then plop back into reality. Feels like the may my own experiences plays out.

But I am most especially fond of the Architeuthis of Truth in the earlier poem!