Gary Hardaway is an architect and poet. A native Texan, Hardaway lives on the flatlands of North Texas
with his wife, writer JP Reese, three cats, and a very old dog. His work has been published at Gumball poetry and the IBPC. His chapbook Not for Profit is forthcoming from SilkwormsInk. ---------
What Isn't Mine Suffices
Leaves fall. Snow falls.
Both fall beyond my notice
in places I will never know
observed by eyes I will not see.
What I will never know
fills the universe.
I have my fragment of time,
My tiny space, no more.
All else is mystery.
A reverence fills the hollow,
sufficient in its
measureless expanse.