a.sunlit.notion.

gnats spinning and turning and diving and burning around each other in the sunlit evening air. sunlight illuminates. underwater planets orbiting one another – do they ever stop or are they in perpetual motion? in a perpetual notion. the sun-bitten leaves nearby watch and wonder. bear silent witness to a dance ages old and seconds young. a moment captured and released. released and then seized again and again. until the cycle burns cold or is determined to keep going. destined to keep moving. to keep dancing. to keep living. there is no end. no beginning in sight. to their mathematical cadence and flight. precise and intentional. tick tock clocks click time. pendulum force. energy employed. exhausted. ignited. snuffed out and then revived by the will to survive. by the will of wing and trust. of light and thrust. of breath and must.