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LITTLE BLESSING FOR MY FLOATER

This tiny ruin in my eye, small

flaw in the fabric, little speck

of blood in the egg, deep chip

in the windshield, north star,

polestar, floater that doesn't

float, spot where my hand is not,

even when I'm looking at my hand,

little piton that nails every rock

I see, no matter if the picture

turns to sand, or sand to sea,

I embrace you, piece of absence

that reminds me what I will be,

all dark some day unless God

rescues me, oh speck

that might teach me yet to see.

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