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A part of something larger than me. Growing awareness of the gears and timing belts and switches and levers and bolts and gadgets myriad. Maybe I can find some small peace as a gear or sprocket or flange. And in that peace find space and time To feel the something larger within.So this is what it's like to be
Wow, Ben! That's the answer! Be part of something larger -- disappear in it, seem completely insignificant, but the reader realizes that each of the gears and sprockets and flanges keep the large thing going. And then the poet finds some quiet inside the machine -- and the larger thing: thoughts, poetry, identity, purpose -- starts to grow inside the speaker and the reader!!