What seems separate, weighty, out there

Is actually already dissolved because

The moving into it

Is a giving up of everything

That has already been lost anyway

So it’s easy to do

Everything works together

Even griefs

Nothing more clever

Than the mind to tangle things up in

Without which we couldn’t ever do

Or even ever appear

∞

From the Spring 1995 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 11, No. 2)

Text © 1995–2020 by Norman Fischer