EYE LOUPE 

Wherever you 

put it down 

or point it

watch what happens

to what’s under 

the suction 

of its scrutiny:

a thing 

magically magnifies.

Our minds 

do this also: magnify.

Which is why 

we must be

careful.

Depending upon 

our mood

we may perceive

a problem 

where there isn’t

one and yet

we magnify 

its size

tenfold 

and then 

find ourselves,

without knowing it,

focused on 

our fixation

and captured within

its fine framing,

caught

within its loop.