The Half Of It  illustrated by Joe Kowalczyk

“It’s human as a human eyeball,”

she says, “to fumble our deep knowledge

that the empty sky is teeming full

beyond our view, and the oceans—huge

and crowded—go all the way down.

From the earliest age, we’ve drawn trees

as trunk, branches and leaves—never mind

the alleged subterranean

activities, the unseen details

we gloss over—it’s natural. But

we don’t remind ourselves we forget.

One practice,” she says, “is to wake up

with the intention of extending

ourselves into what we don’t perceive,

letting our actions cross that blind edge

into those other realms. How will we

then modify what we do daily?”