Here

By Adrianna Calvo via Pexels

all this
enormity

tussled with the mist

grating on
sure-footed slumber

questions erased on
lilting syllables

but for the instance

the fog
is the haze of
a car window

the metronome hum
of oars skating glass

of blotted trees
with willowy spines
like any self-assured sentinel

and the creeping warmth
that makes the splotch
of a canary bike

so much further than it is

that when the ambience
sluices against an eggshell
housing eternity

is several yawning lifetimes away

enormity
is in the telling of another story

ten steps
from here