Tag: expanse

Leviathan

Swallowed whole
By the leviathan

An expanse
Improbably wide
Impossibly flat
Exceptionally fertile

Here am I
On a strip of gravel
Running forever
North and south
Feel no larger
Than the pebbles
Crunching underfoot
In the dust

And no more significant

Equal parts land and sky

A gravel grid takes me there
And then afar
The dust kicked up
Wind whisks away

An expanse left sparse
For what good seed may raise
The prairie, where sight lines end
Only at the infinite

In the high desert
Where the land is wide
And the sky wider
I cross the expanse
On a knife’s edge of asphalt
Buffeted by furious headwinds

Inside my little cockpit of calm and warmth
I sing “Wassiye! Wassiye!”
With Habib Koite
A song of mirth and joy and love

Just as is the song within me
As I navigate existence
Across the expanse of being
And all its many storms

I love being
Where the sky is big
And the land is bigger

I love being
In a space bigger than I
Where I wade out into expanse

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