February 2024 Flash Lit 9 (last go) - Space

Space

 

Distances between stars

stretch light years.

Between hearts,

it varies from

the twinkling of an eye

to the depth of the abyss.

By nature,

space is nothing.

The background,

the negative,

the pause.

But without it:

no perspective.

Stars and books and

bodies and rubber bands

and teaspoons and

cats a jumbling whirl

of nonsense.

It is space

that makes meaning.