PUZZLE
I stay up.all night
solving chess puzzles
which is OK
I cannot sleep
fear something
like a rogue asteroid
out there
with all our names on it
as yet undetected
will strike me and my world
when I am unconscious
diverted by some
troubling insignificance
in a recurrent dream
but
if it has my name
our names on it
at least it shows
on the part of
the cosmos
a level of awareness, of
recognition that
I would not
have believed
marking us for a dark fate in
such a clear, purposive
and determined manner
shows a rational malignity
that just
has to be Greek
a reassuring thought
currently stuck (black
to mate in
seven) on a problem
whose solution I just
do not see
do not see.