Someone once said to me, “It’s the little things that drive you crazy!”
It’s not.
It’s the little things that drive you sane — pills, pats and pets.
All praise for what is small: dollops and gobs and dabs, the edges of pie crusts, chocolate shavings.
Hail micro-sacredness of life, tiny flotsam and mini-jetsam — veins, mists, creeks, fogs.
Is it not life’s micro-detail, womp and woof of wondrous world, that moves us to gratitude?
Drops, pinches, dashes, rain, cinnamon, lotion; fermions, flounces, hadrons, hats, bosons, bacon bits, antiquarks — there is a breath-taking thereness in the smallest things.
And then at last there is the weight and force of slivered, severed time.
The massive power of one, tiny, single “was.”
The mighty microsity of one “will be.”
And the astonishing force of this quickly, quarky, snarky second’s “is.”
Modern Soliloquies & Pastiches 