Metaphysics in the Time of Trump

by Shirley Glubka

Metaphysics in the Time of Trump
You are all me but I’m having /a private moment.
— Alice Notley, “Hotel Truth Room”

I am not large, I contain no multitudes —

I am this tiny cupful of tangled —
astonishing —
bodied, held, stretched, shaped, valued —
mysteriously valued —
liquid —
events —

minded —
mine —

ii.

Froth now on the surface of my cupful of events —
tiny storms on my tiny ocean —

deep in my tiny cup, still, the miracle —
busy sources —
happy, active, unseen —

iii.

But my cup spills —
all cups, jostled sufficiently —
spill —

and all the tiny oceans run together.

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