catfish breaching
sun-splashed
glistening waves
of Carroll Creek
new age hippies
dance in
bell bottom daze
with war vets
in wheelchairs
congregating
near their usual spot
shea butter
melts into eyes
some scenes are too
terribly awesome
to witness fully
so how could I capture
a deadpan snapshot in a poem?
dissolve continues
particle fragments
component isolates
every piece playing its perfect part
it couldn’t be any other way
else it wouldn’t be at all
every choice
every decision
every step
every righteous action
every shameful misdeed
every success
every regret
every birth
every death
every flux in the program
every breath of the simulation
if it weren’t for the dive-bombing duck
splashing soft in forgiving waters
God would be forgotten behind the veil
