[life in the void]
steady on course
from the beginning of time
funny how logic works
how we can rely
on its parameters
in the living world
while the living world
came from an unprecedented occurrence
in the farthest reaches of an abyss
we’ve yet to fully understand
the real truth is
we’ll always be
in a profoundly
unfathomable
darkness
and no matter
how much we learn
the only thing
we really need to know
is how to be the light.
Edward L. Canavan is a Los Angeles based poet whose work has most recently appeared in The Cholla Needles, Stick Figure Quarterly, AEOS Magazine, and the Anti-Fascist Anthology “Silence is Consent.” His third poetry collection titled “Skeleton Flowers” is out now on Cyberwit Press. Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, Edward currently resides in North Hollywood,California, where he practices Buddhism and is currently listening to Voivod.
