Un-name-able poem #1
recently an image on facebook showed
tan grey brown darkish slightly mottled
perhaps “ground” I was puzzled why such
an odd scene of nothingness was pictured
I scrolled up then hit the stark edge the
“horizon” of this whatever above apparent
“sand”: total blackness and centered in that
black blank a bright still orb size of a BB –
US! EARTH! first photo from surface of mars
I saw this familiar stranger as palimpsest
so small so silent so totally alone in the void
yet I know it to be teeming with competitive
though cooperative life from its first bacteria –
and so overwhelmingly vulnerable! my
throat contracted eyes teared up, overflowed
2021 Jacqueline Jackson
This article appears in Home & Garden.
