Vacillation All our lives if we are attuned to it vacillate between absurdities: How can life be something? How can life be nothing? The signs all are crossed and knotted leading to both and to neither. Who can unravel them? And yet the heart beats and knows with its knocking: this life is something.
Riley Mulhern is an engineer and a research scientist. He writes poetry because it makes him more alive.