The Middlewesterner

ALL THE UNIVERSE

All the universe

but one bubble

in a swirling pot

beyond us. So much

more than we know,

those other places

we cannot reach.

All the life and death

and resurrection

of endless others,

we think it matters.

This universe, too,

this moment, matters,

until it doesn't.

# posted by Tom Montag @ 6:00 PM