The Morphology of Compassion and Indifference by Nynke Passi

The Morphology of Compassion and Indifference Raindrops advance kamikaze-style, surrendering individual, perfect smallness Do tears of an onion look differently under a microscope than tears of grief? A cracked shard of glass reflects the sun as beautifully as a church window Pizzicato spider feet play cobweb harps up in heaven near the ceiling The sun’s lips kiss the earth goodbye so fervently they bleed Stars sparkle with glory but are dead and don’t know anyone’s story Who notices that grasshoppers pray summer sacred, that pebbles are soft like a child’s wrists?

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