Mirror Panic
We all find inspiration in our heroes, our gods...
There was a flavour of meanness, a terrible sharpness of separation that made me wonder if I had been a sucker, a galloping fool all along.
They both stare at the tulips. Then they don’t. God is tangled in kite string and we look away.
There is something here. I can feel it. It rules even the cosmos and is bigger than all time.
I want to be better at this. I want my relationship with time and occasion to be a reflex instead of the result of effort, and there is no reason it shouldn’t be. I have the inner loot now.