Infinitesimal

Flower by flower,
Design by desire—
With apologies

To Anne Stevenson—
Life gets living done,
A dreamer alone

On one iron stone,
Feeding itself selves
Living on itself.

The combination
Of extremities
Of the possible

Views of the local
That’s most difficult
To hold together

Is to believe this
Simultaneous
Superposition—

Earth, in its living,
Is both trivial,
Inconspicuous,

An irrelevance
To the universe,
And unique as well.