It's Still Life

Day 6. The One Full of Contradictions

If something has no name, then how do we know what it is, if it’s nameless. Ida’s Youngest was like one of those concrete noun things. Like a brick. Or a statue. The Big Bang. A thing on to itself. Himself being himself. And he called himself Effortless, so he’d know what he was.

sky in his pocket
all that grey weighed him down
but it kept him grounded

This is Piece six of a (draft) multi-part project. The concept was originally created by Jim Simmerman, entitled “Twenty Little Poetry Projects”. ©Misky 2021 Photo by Brad Helmink on Unsplash