The Gumption to Swerve

Photo by Kirsten Harrison

Has there ever been a moment

when everything in you said

“shrink”

and, instead,

you expanded?

In between those two moments

existed a split second –

invisible until right then,

when the faint outline of a new possibility

was perceptible –

and with it,

the gumption

to swerve.

Maybe defiantly, maybe gracefully,

neither disposition diminishing

the miracle –

a threshold between

pattern and choice –

a tiny synaptic restoration.

Imperceptible to any

unit of measure available

to the human mind,

the heart and the body radiate

with its magnitude,

its depth.

If we line up our

split second moments

yours, mine, theirs

could we somehow perceive the faint outline of

a new possibility,

collective muscle memory

of the gumption

to swerve?

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