Stumbling

 We stumble our beautiful broken paths
  finding warmth in clasped hands and tangled legs
  smiling and crying under blindfolds, a crowd
  stumbling towards the slaughter.
  The merciful one, the grand architect, the
  shepherd peels us from the herd
  Towards unknown pastures.
  I will miss your warmth.
  I will miss you.
  

You cannot paint the world with a single horse-hair.

Maybe we read too much into brash strokes, seeing only one hair's impact at a time. See the forest, see the trees, see each individual leaf, but also the water that fed the seeds and the wind that bent the boughs. Witness its birth and death, its possible futures, a thousand million lifetimes, timelines, generations, ancestors. It is too much to consider-- the artist must act. And it is always perfect.

12.28.23

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