Small
It was something small, just so.
Occurring suddenly, unexpectedly.
A sleepy town
awoke for a moment, groggily, then
paused. Perhaps a child’s sandbox, with contrived granular ocean,
coastal village, and model airplane,
a toy. A boy out late at night, unaware of portent.
A thing that surprised, for clouds
are rarely rent open in complete darkness,
in view of no one,
releasing
a craft
plummeting
downwards,
so gently,
unobserved,
unexplained.
Tragedy is dramatized, most often: Imagine an oblivious bedroom,
prior to embarking.
Small things gain importance, as remote lovers’ conversations
often do, but
what can be said
when leaving,
and when returning, or not.
The weight of angels, the significance
of devils, and the mundane
goodbye,
the generality that proves
“I love you”
which belongs not in elegy,
nor mere description,
but instead
declares itself
in reminiscence,
inexplicably. Perhaps (small) child’s play.
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