THE INCONSISTENCY OF STARS

THE INCONSISTENCY OF STARS

     (for our friend Chris Holmes)

It’s not uncommon to think of someone you haven’t seen or heard from in awhile.

It’s not unusual to wonder about their mortality, especially if their health was known to be fragile.

It’s not even uncommon to find out the person had died on or about the time he or she had been in your thoughts.

It’s that moment of knowing a phone call is coming, and who is calling, just before the ring.

It’s easy to make up reasons for the so-called coincidence, or call it enlightened guess-work, but we like best to imagine we are connected in ways beyond happenstance.

We like to think blood is electric

That love and friendship are currents in the continuum

That the ocean of time bathes us in common

And that our humanity is the great connector.

We’d like to believe candles make a difference, prayers are answered, wishes were horses, and our loved ones reach to us through the galaxies.

Believe

what we will

We are

Temporal

&

Forever

&

know

very

little.

RW

Guanajuato City

February 4, 2018