On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous


You once told me that the human eye
is god’s 𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝖈𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓. 𓁹

How so much of the world passes through the pupil
and still it holds nothing. 𓁹

The         𓁹         alone
               eye                  in its socket
                                                         doesn't even know there’s another one,

        just like it,
                                                an inch away,
        just as hungry,
                                                as empty. 𓁹


Opening the front door to the first snowfall of my life, 𓁹

                                                              you whispered, 𓁹

                                                                                                   “Look.” 𓁹