July 4

Sometimes we get binary and talk about an aisle with opposite sides, forgetting that for an aisle to exist everyone must sit in a single room.

Sometimes we talk about points on a spectrum, but points only form a spectrum in relationship to each other. 

Maybe it's something else - something bigger.

Maybe it's a piece of fabric,  

something big and broad  

that stretches up and down and across

and even diagonally.

Something with an underlying theme

to the lines and corners

and range of hues. 

Something like a few stars

and a few bars,

and a few colors,

and when you put them all together,

they make a theme that no single component

can ever create on its own;

and maybe you on your straight red line

and me on the tip of an angle -

maybe we need a day

to remember that

without you on your bar

and me on my star, 

we would just be

isolated points on a nebulous spectrum

or empty chairs in a broken room.

-cs 070418