Under the Table

A sponge for every cascade,
Soft grounds for all hard falls. Don’t

Forget that the butterfly
Initiating the storm

Could only do so because
Many other winds were stilled,

And some great gusts were muted.
Vast consequences from small

Sequences need sequences
Absorbed in between. The rush

Of gathering flood waters
That makes cascades possible

Builds up from little trickles
A mass of contingencies,

But, inevitably, more
Ends in the water table.