Monday, June 18, 2012

Optical Distance


I watch my life pass through a telescope
mirrors and mirrors playing with distance.
Serrated edges of formative hope
outside the bounds of detail resistance.
Passing away vision to microscopes
magnifying the miniscule gearworks
grand as sky, dust becoming isotopes.
What time could it be if time only lurks?
Firm beliefs and steady motion reveals
binoculars’ forays to the expanse.
I couldn’t explain the way seeing feels
other than the dust, the river by chance.
Optics support souls to see the obscure,
wide vision structures uphold the demure.

-Grant Durando 

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