Highway to nowhere

driving all day to collect

The remains of my recently passed friends life

The odd, ends & bed frames

Left without a home, left to me

Splitting the drive back home so I can stop

At the little science center of his youth, next to the lake,

where he learned the names of the fish he loved to catch

Thinking of our trip to Montana & our fishing

The fly rod he brought on a visit that still hangs unused on the wall

So many people have made donations he must have been very loved she said

I can barely see the paperwork through stained glass eyes

https://www.lensc.org/

It’s all a bit too much today

To much death this year

too little care.

‘we are born dying’ bravado in the face of loss

Dolphins only need to work twenty percent of the time

The Rapa Nui carved nearly nine hundred colossal statues to justify feeding everyone

Winter comes & goes

but we are stuck

in our time

to watch it move

The illusion of permanence in the face of infinity

Flickering frames in the dark

our brains see as motion

Every frame a story

Every life a stack of frames

Postcards unsent

Songs on repeat till the battery runs

out

Nothing is static, not even the dead

Quarks, electrons, atoms, molecules, animals, atmosphere, tectonic plates, planets, stars, black holes, galaxies, the visable universe all are in constant motion
stillness is an illusion of perspective
a memory frame, artificial to the nature of being
time to move again