Childish Delight

Outsized ideas are full 

of words and images, 

tangled together, 

a myriad of balloons 

released into the morning air. 

To pick one thread, one string; 

to catch the most important one 

can seem, at first, impossible. 

Not to the scientists who see 

the possibilities.

They each take hold of 

any string and begin. 

“Touch a scientist and you touch a child.”

~ Ray Bradbury

A Tiny Sliver

Suspicion pushes reason aside like any argument. 

Nothing makes sense but 

for the little sliver that does. 

It’s grasping that tiny sliver;

to hang on is the tough part. 

That little sliver is the love of a real life 

and can push suspicion gently aside.

“Suspicion is a heavy armour and with its weight 

it impedes more than it protects.”

~ Robert Burns