outside tonight...

outside tonight, just now, and the southern sky is clear and bright.

and I was standing in the garden for a spell, considering the moon and June.

and it occurred to me there in the silver coldness that I'd stood in the same place before, dumb to possibilities of the world...

— Tim Mallon (@PatMalo85776814) June 26, 2021

Perhaps, in my case, I would have said: 'dumb and maybe numb to possibilities of the world.'