High Wire Acts or, Little Deaths

you’re on a wire, pole to pole
from here to there
with too much space beneath
for body to survive a fall

so each step is rife with
what it means to be alive:
as one, or split / as piece, or all

let’s call the wire Truth
the space below is Lie

every step will be a proof
of how you live or die

Jim Culleny,
4/1/22