The view parts like silk,
fraying into long ribbons,
the scene behind the screen
coming into view

It’s not, as we had thought, a large world,
ourselves as tiny crawlers on the surface,
maybe able to unleash a cataclysm
but certainly unable to avert one

Instead, these pictures
(the weather, the economy, the politics)
will burn away like film, like mesh,
to show the wider landscape of the mind,
where we have much more power than we thought,
but only in the service
of what we really are.

©Wendy Mulhern
January 18, 2023