Small Worlds I by Neil Ellman
Small Worlds I Painting by Wassily Kandinsky Small Worlds I (painting by Wassily Kandinsky) Not an iota not a dot barely more than a particle of light a syllable a single word a fragment of a sentence without a point and yet contains multitudes of meaning myriad colors on a never-ending wheel the shape of infinity in a drop of blood on the hands of time— how small these worlds this universe in the darkness of an amaranthine night waiting for the light the word and the cries of a child about to be born. Neil Ellman is a poet from New Jersey. He has published numerous poems, more than 1,000 of which are ekphrastic and written in response to works of modern art, in print and online journals, anthologies an...