Monday, April 12, 2021

here

 

the great imploding world view
cascading light particles
you count them
1...2...                    here's another!
3.    three particles of light
and you are full

the aggregates of mind
the foundational delusions of ego
crammed in a space
the size of a baby raccoon
your brain feels so light
as light as your conscience
your pineal gland secretes
primps before its blazing mirror

I have found you
this is no illusion

we breathe, 
therefore
we're here

Qumran/Cleveland

 15,000 fragments

from 530 scrolls
found in a cave
built into a hillside

the Dead Sea swishes
quietly peers up 
at the gaping cave mouth

she walks into my room
in the psych hospital
lays a book on my bedside
says, "I thought you might 
get something out of this."

I pick up the book
read one sentence only
"life on Earth
is a battle between the Sons of Light
and the Sons of Darkness"

blood drains from my face,
I imagine
the days pass
like kidney stones
in this tenement
of the accursed