JB Mulligan
You are the Vision
You are the witness to a universe
vaster than you and your eye within.
All the rhythm and motion you see
and contain (as the fruit holds the seed,
plump as a wish or a tumor),
you carry forward,
shape and taste it all
until you give what you've learned
or learning shuts.
You are responsible for what this seed
becomes, what blooms or withers.
Petals will melt into dirt
before you are done.
JB Mulligan has had poems and stories in several hundred magazines over the past 35 years. He has had two chapbooks published--The Stations of the Cross and THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS—and an e-book, The City Of Now And Then. He has appeared in several anthologies, including Inside/Out: A Gathering Of Poets; The Irreal Reader (Cafe Irreal); and multiple volumes of Reflections on a Blue Planet.
You are the Vision
You are the witness to a universe
vaster than you and your eye within.
All the rhythm and motion you see
and contain (as the fruit holds the seed,
plump as a wish or a tumor),
you carry forward,
shape and taste it all
until you give what you've learned
or learning shuts.
You are responsible for what this seed
becomes, what blooms or withers.
Petals will melt into dirt
before you are done.
JB Mulligan has had poems and stories in several hundred magazines over the past 35 years. He has had two chapbooks published--The Stations of the Cross and THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS—and an e-book, The City Of Now And Then. He has appeared in several anthologies, including Inside/Out: A Gathering Of Poets; The Irreal Reader (Cafe Irreal); and multiple volumes of Reflections on a Blue Planet.