“You don’t need a weatherman to know
which way the wind blows” —Bob Dylan
high pressure to low, breeze
requires disequilibrium,
there’ll be no wind without it,
the greater the absence here
the fiercer the blast from there
the more thorough the vacancy there
the deeper the absence here
something there is that abhors a vacuum
to breathe, lungs must be partially void,
it’s in the nature of things:
air tends toward equilibrium
as does wise governance
the power of wind, like that of populations,
may be exploited as well
disequilibrium breeds contempt,
contempt breeds violent winds,
but equilibrium, like love,
is stable and still
Jim Culleny
4/16/22
Blink
…either way in a blink, in a blink we drink it up / Poems by Jim Culleny
Blink 