You wonder how machines work.

How seasons flow together,

and you punish swiftly, without effort.

How workers strike, and animals are.

How both something, and absolutely nothing, mean something

in between the spaces.

How people eat and sleep and grown kids leave home.

How potential possibilities…

 

You wonder how machines work.

How children fight, fire unfurls,

and insects lick their feet.

How light weighs itself

and hunger kicks in.

 

How birds dance, clouds fly,

time fades, memories are stoked like flames and love remains.

How raindrops long,

laugh, and cry hand in hand,

how everything breathes and hovers in silence,

standing still within the situation.

How thoughts sigh. In the labyrinth you stand

and you wonder,

 

How messages echo,

how we dream of monsters, longing,

and do the laundry.

You wonder how machines work.