Seeing For A Moment

 I thought I was growing wings—
it was a cocoon.


I thought, now is the time to step
into the fire—
it was deep water.


Eschatology is a word I learned
as a child: the study of Last Things;

facing my mirror—no longer young,
 the news—always of death,
 the dogs—rising from sleep and clamoring
 and howling, howling,

nevertheless
I see for a moment
that's not it: it is
the First Things.


Word after word
floats through the glass.

Towards me.

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