Day 6: The Greatest Distance

we would have understood

if not for silence,

with its

gasping inversion,

thoughts all

drowning backwards;

if not for time,

with its

again               

and

again

and

again,

its

unheeding

persistent

inevitable

inevitable,

time always

eating its own

carcass.

it would have been better

if we’d understood.

but we’d used up all our miracles already.