LOOKING BEYOND
You hold the paperweight
on your open palm
and peer, shortsighted,
into its strange disorder -
its shattered galaxies, starbursts,
its frozen wavetop spray.
"My life today", you said,
"feels like this looks",
and you smiled towards
your summer wedding and
the old parameters restored -
the men in suits,
the Orange Day parade,
the priest you fear, the dog
you love, the certainties,
the certainties.
"Before you put it down",
I said, "look deep.
The more you look,
the more there is beyond".
"Beyond is the problem", you replied,
slipping the paperweight
back on the shelf.
"Beyond is the problem".
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