Another Matter
These tiny souls.
Our curious minds.
What more do we need
To harness success,
Than a single idea at a time.
But let’s think large.
Imagine the entire world
Without size or dimension.
Envision an infinite planet
Too complex to implode.
The rest is guesswork.
A few theories here,
A simple hypothesis there.
Yet it all makes sense—
Balanced ever so delicately
On a black spider’s back,
And a web of silk, no doubt.
What more is required?
Stay focused, if possible.
Keep both feet on the ground;
Your brain in constant motion.
As for the heart though,
That’s another matter.
Bart Edelman’s poetry collections include Crossing the Hackensack, Under Damaris’ Dress, The Alphabet of Love, The Gentle Man, The Last Mojito, The Geographer’s Wife, Whistling to Trick the Wind, and This Body Is Never at Rest: New and Selected Poems 1993 – 2023. He has taught at Glendale College, where he edited Eclipse, a literary journal, and, most recently, in the MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. His work has been anthologized in textbooks published by City Lights Books, Etruscan Press, Harcourt Brace, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, the University of Iowa Press, Wadsworth, and others. He lives in Pasadena, California.
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