A floating line cast
out into the world,
so light it floats, adrift
in the soft hush of dusk.
The smallest filaments
invisible, and only
where it has clumped up,
overlapping itself
in it’s tidal ribboning,
has it become thick enough
to be seen, a white tightrope,
only not tight at all, but fluid,
wafting out from this
twig into the sky – a bridge
to the soft pink and deep
black horizon.
And she – this tiny being,
so small I nearly missed her –
dangles down. My mind knows
that she is held there
by a similar
thread – but I could
swear she is verily
suspended in midair
by nothing but her
own lightness
of being.