Dawn Will Usher Me
to the edge of Ulysses
i will kneel there i
broken helms i will drift in tawny sails
of Van Gogh stars you
meditations this is where we shall meet down
down touching gold statues of unknown gods
there will be no rebirth
five million ocean-lives
volcanic shafts & space particles
plankton rushing splintered light from another
world’s desires
staring forever lacquer-brushed & scraped from
yesterday & yesterday within yesterday wounded
or is it timelessness
or is it simply your life
our race toward existence
nothing again it is
this vastness still a vastness this
multi-turquoise deep grasp
our will to become to
come into being are
through the jagged ascensions it was
always the song &
the gasping & the bursting
of our birthing belly the infinite multiplications within
the infinite multiplication
the very last mirrors this Kali Yuga
& me extracting the elixir &
last reefs &
barnacled piers
bleeding galaxy & that is all there is
Source: Poetry (April 2023)