The Big E*
by Mark Frutkin
It won’t be fabulous or fantastic,
not explosive or alarming or stunning,
It won’t be spiritual LSD.
Everything won’t suddenly click,
be brighter, more brilliant,
sharper, clearer, or brimful of meaning.
I call it The Big E
but it won’t necessarily be Big
or particularly small
or even in-between,
maybe it’ll be like a strong steady wind
out of the west
but maybe not,
maybe it’ll be silent and still
or clear as mud,
maybe, just maybe, it’ll be ordinary
as a laugh.
*Enlightenment
