When I consider a line on a desert floor,<\/p>\n
4.3 miles long, marked off in 11 yard increments worth 20 million years each,<\/p>\n
and take in the time and distance since our kin first tamed fire,<\/p>\n
1 million years tucked in 2.5 feet of that 4.3 miles,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
and then discover that every name<\/p>\n
ever spoken or heard<\/p>\n
fits neatly in 0.4 inches of that 2.5 feet in the 4.3 mile, 13.8 billion year old score<\/p>\n
stepped off on a stony plain,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I find the breadth of my life is less than the width of a human hair<\/p>\n
(do I even need to tell you how small that is?).<\/p>\n
Knowing now my size in full, I ask:<\/p>\n
Who am I that \u201cthou\u201d, or anyone, or anything “art mindful\u201d of me?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Held to scale,<\/p>\n
we are measured and found wanting,<\/p>\n
mere cilia, floating, a minor perturbation,<\/p>\n
not a single soul one iota larger than the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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