Finding the Universe In the Step That Shattered the Jar
Returning from a place I don't remember
To a place I'd forgotten.
Winding down a single star
Galaxies away from a single star
And the world that rests on the dotted line.
Sometimes splendid in broken light
The specks of splendorous emptiness
Encircling a single star
Galaxies away from a single star
I rest beside the things I've abandoned.
Chortling words of uncharacteristic meaning
And I skewer the pit of my own lukewarm heart
Enveloping a single star
Galaxies away from a single star
I don't want to use the stairs.
(It's exciting to reach the bottom
When you've spiraled through the air
And your feet drop to the floor
Like your heart from your lungs.)
Shoving pieces of fractured languages
Into a plain old envelope
Polishing a single star
Galaxies away from a single star
And broken purple poison in a jar.
(Returning from a place I'd forgotten
To a place I don't remember
With just an outstretched hand between the two.)
--Date unknown
To a place I'd forgotten.
Winding down a single star
Galaxies away from a single star
And the world that rests on the dotted line.
Sometimes splendid in broken light
The specks of splendorous emptiness
Encircling a single star
Galaxies away from a single star
I rest beside the things I've abandoned.
Chortling words of uncharacteristic meaning
And I skewer the pit of my own lukewarm heart
Enveloping a single star
Galaxies away from a single star
I don't want to use the stairs.
(It's exciting to reach the bottom
When you've spiraled through the air
And your feet drop to the floor
Like your heart from your lungs.)
Shoving pieces of fractured languages
Into a plain old envelope
Polishing a single star
Galaxies away from a single star
And broken purple poison in a jar.
(Returning from a place I'd forgotten
To a place I don't remember
With just an outstretched hand between the two.)
--Date unknown
