Discovery

Discovery

You have hit the nail
on the hammer,

have crammed the universe
into a speech bubble.

You have cured
the common cold,

have slid the manhole’s lid
aside to reveal a hole,

the earth’s mouth fallen
open, impressed.

You made gravity.
You found it. You founded it.

You scribbled a shape on a napkin,
a bison, an animal

cracker with one leg
missing, and called it a country.

You pointed at some shore
you had not seen before,

and dragged your boat to it
that you might walk

through the sand of a new
land, you discovered it.

We knew you had it
in you all along, we say,

a switch in the cavity
of your body

that just had to be
nudged up.