Circles of influence

As with Death and Being

(in love),

you only know it when it comes

close enough to smell-it gone.

This doesn't help us.

It is curious to wonder

why we still get dizzy

(in tight circles we spin)

when this has always been

the Prime Mover

of things that (are like) matter.

It is earthshaking to think all of us

know something

(is speaking directly to us)…

As with Kodiak bears and Great White sharks

act Bigger and be LOUD-pretend you are more than you are.

We don't dare admit

this is not enough.

Survival is still

just our luck.

Painting by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Title: Ulysses Fleeing the Cave of Polyphemus

“Eckersberg spent 1811 to 1812 in the studio of David, practicing life drawing and history painting. One of a series of subjects from the Odyssey, this is perhaps the most compelling. The giant Polyphe­mus in his cave looms over a sheep, searching for Ulysses and his companions, who blinded the one-eyed monster. The men have escaped beneath the bellies of the flock; Ulysses, at the end, prepares to join his companions. The Mediterranean light is dazzling. We viewers remain imprisoned in the tenebrous foreground as Ulysses slips away. Eckersberg’s study of the eloquent contours of Greek vase painting is put to good use here.”