you sit still/but you also whirling around/the axis of a planet/which whirls around/the center of the sun/which whirls around/a black hole holding a galaxy together/yet you are not dizzy/because it is chiefly velocity at play/and not acceleration

you are calm/but your country has gone sideways/its leaders thieves and liars/its allies antagonized into disbelieving rage/but you are calm/because one of your own battles/is with overwhelmedness/and one of your defense tactics/is compartmentalization

an earth-striking asteroid or a nuclear strike/would be so game-changing/as to end the game

but so far so…uncatastrophic

so far unlikely

.

there is so much inherent sensibility/in laws of motion

so much wonder/that we got a chance to be alive/and to feel

yet so much danger/we must move to avoid it

and be moved/by beyondness