the tiniest detail

spider's rigging tension wire a silk-thin cable for a rusted tire alphabet of beetle's braille upon the bark read it in the daylight read it in the dark it's the grit in the gear it's the salt in the tear it's the alchemy of everything we're holding near nothing is hollow nothing is small the dust in the sunlight is a wrecking ball screen door rhythm percussive stutter of a wooden heart beating in a shallow gutter map of the heavens in an oil spill iridescent purple on the windowsill it's the grit in the gear it's the salt in the tear it's the alchemy of everything we're holding near nothing is hollow nothing is small the dust in the sunlight is a wrecking ball the hinge groans the light bones the hinge groans the light bones is it a reason to stay or a reason to leave? just a single thread hanging from a sleeve tea leaves settling dark formation archipelago of drowned information bottle caps and twine bottle caps and twine turning sour water into vintage wine small things the sharp things (nothing is small) small things the sharp things (nothing is small) the architecture of a sigh the blueprint of a fly the heavy, heavy weight the heavy, heavy weight