How It Is
Say how it is
How easy
Too easy to say
How it is
Is not how it is
It keeps changing
Before it becomes
A was already it is
Something
Altogether else
Say nothing it may
Stay still
How to say nothing
And say how it is
A bubble on a lake
Breaks in the dark
A streetlight goes on
Somewhere else an
Elastic band snaps
It burns a moment
To say how it is (say
How it is) to touch
The quivering
Hand of chance.
Plume: Issue #100 December 2019