planet


heaven is
tugging at the mind,
light of the mind,
like a solar system

whatever, the mind
makes, unmakes, its boundaries,
the black skin of a storm cloud
ripped by lightning

see here, the clerk's shirt has a button down collar,
his jacket corduroy, his trousers cuffed and pleated.
these are his place, his arena for navigating systems, tides,
even the occasional eclipse,
as if all that comes settled or unsettled
may be thumbnailed, may be hooked
by the hour, the day, the life

        her body spun by his lovemaking.
        her body no longer, no longer the place
        but passing through it she cried, and her crying
        collapsed the shapes of possibilities, the weave of energy
        traced and lost at the sub-atomic level

                      and downward flew, not to place
                           that knows the matter with borders,
                 but nowhere, by random interchange
        In seeInlng waves,
                                                  she cried out
                                   nothing that matters,
                  of is certain, or solid

so the mind storms in its orbit,
        through images that are not facts,
                   through memories that are not facts,
ringed by gravity, crossing the web of heaven
             the unthreaded thread, following the light
                                 the mind that falls
                 from its lovemaking

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