Happiness

How far away is your happiness?

            How many inches?

How many yards?

            How many bus rides to work

and back?

            How many doorways

and stairwells?

            How many hours

awake in the dark

            belly of the night

which contains

            all the world’s bedrooms,

all dollhouse-sized?

            How far away is your happiness?

How many words?

            How many thoughts?

How much pavement?

            How much thread

in the enormous sewing machine

            of the present moment?