Dead Reckoning

 To understand the movement

of anything

you must have some sense

if what is fixed--

we lost this quality somewhere.

We are moving quickly 

in a complicated world,

everyone relative to some

memory or maxim

grasping at a unified reality,

but now what we know together

or what we knew? 

These are strangely distorted,

and some brand-new fixed points

are nothing that ever were

and people flock to a transient glow

in a light-soaked blur

like moths to 

a porch light or

a bug zapper and 

mistaken sights that equal doom.