Work in Progress, A

a selection from 

Tranquility and the Revolution

a conversation:

What’s the theme?

How do you mean?

You know, the theme.

I’ve never really understood that very well.

That’s okay, it doesn’t have to have a theme.

It doesn’t?

Well, I mean it does, but . . . .

It’s not always obvious?

Yeah.

But sometimes it’s obvious.

Of course.

Not for me.  

It's like a motif.

A decorative ornamentation?

A dominant idea.

It probably has one, but I have no idea what it is.