Today, I decided to stop
Duct taping my sides together.
Holding guts inside
Became too painful.
First, my lungs expanded
Air rushed sweet into
New distance
My ribs no longer bound breath
So when you gently touched hair
Straying across my face,
the wind did not stop,
Continued filling my chest
Blessing each breath
Second, each step
Essential with connection,
Your presence, humming electric,
Illuminated fascia, connective tissues
spider webbing the cleft between
aorta and right atrium.
Heart chambers gathered extra blood,
swelled, stretched out
All my cardiac wrinkles–
When you hugged me longer than expected,
Left ventricle shivered
And continued to pump life
At a slightly quicker rate.
Today, I consecrated my gallbladder,
Asked her courage to stand beside me,
Called for holy bile,
So I could digest
The meaning behind your smile
My reaction to your touch
So I could recycle the light
cast from your eyes
Add radiance and Sun tones
From my diaphragm, and
Mix electric in a stone bowl
before reflecting it back again.
Third, the next morning,
Tears down my face before the mirror.
Never beheld such vast distance.
Between the two lowest ribs nestled a galaxy.
Billions of stars and planets
And I could only think
That all universes
Suffer heat death eventually.
But maybe we could build a fire
Somewhere in all this space
So when the end comes
We can move closer
capture electric sparks
Add tinder and breath to catch.
Our fire could reignite matter
Start the big bang all over again
Destroy death
And spawn a new universe.
I want to send smoke signals,
But I don’t know
If you understand the signs.
