The Scroll, part 3 "Quenching"

PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL:

Spiraling Consequences

So much depends on things we can't see. 

Will dips the tip and the scroll is hard like a 

spring that resists and resists until it breaks. 

Because he knows the metal's  touch and color 

he sets orbits in the molecules in the spiral of the scroll

and aligns the universes that spread between.

And I wonder:

Might casual violence 

fall in every footstep

ever taken?

And then I squeeze the shutter.