a sand grain blake displayed
as if a seer and discerned
amid the silica’s glisten
this from that and now in then
you too can be as he
and look up and out
next to some exited sea
to watch with horror
clawing from deep within
the beast shed its skin
then see all that we be
swallowed in infinity
yes you too can hold still
each grain’s initial fall
to see away from here
and the everything in all
(February 2, 2017)
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