WHAT’S THE
RUSH?

Not the center.
Never were.
Not the edge.
Just a speck of dust
in a bowl too big to hold.
universe
galaxy
Of all the spirals,
you ended up in this one.
A coincidence.
13 billion years
to make room for you.
The earth takes its time.
Moss.
Rivers.
Hands.
planet
tortoise
the road
was the point
the whole time
dust in the fur
breath in the grass
nothing else required
lion
octopus
I could do everything.
But I don't.
It was quiet at first.
Then someone ran.
Now no one remembers
what we were chasing.
sloth
birds
I didn't know where I was going
but I wasn't alone
and that felt like direction
Maybe I was never lost.
Just moving too fast
to recognize the story I was in.
human