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December 01, 1996

(all these expansive nighttimes)

all these expansive nighttimes
fire like stellar flowers
detonate and unfold their petals:
a lotus floating in snow.

the storyteller with the blue body of
skysurroundingstars
turning leaves slowly:
leasing whispers from the library.

i am alert to the capacity of the caverns of the chest
entirely impressed by such depths
rejoice in my fearless falling:
dizzying the spells of the abysmal.

we are the shadow of a great moving body.
we are a trace of all things.