Friday, August 14, 2015

Perseids

Acadia National Park, Maine. Photo by Jack Fusco.

  
Again last night, out of Perseus,

as we rode through the dust trail of a comet,

hacking away at the trivial knots

that lash us to the yoke of our lives,

so important in the universe of self

that spins around our hearts,

oh, fellow creature of no consequence

among the hundreds of billions of milky ways,

how, in the moment, what you said to me

meant everything.