VAST GLOWING VAULT
with the swarm of
black stars pushing them–
selves out and away:
on to the ram's silicified forehead.
I brand this image between
the horns, in which,
in the song of the whorls, the
marrow of melted
heart-oceans swells.
In–
to what
does he not charge?
The world is gone, I must carry you.-Paul Celan
8.04.2008
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Hugging someone you love
Hugging someone you love
is “I promise to die before you do;
I don’t want to hold your
hand as you lay petrified, sapped sensation, on death’s bed;
I want to die first,
I’m better at dying than you, wouldn’t you think. . . .
I can’t face the proposition
of suicide if you die; I refuse
to rely on the hope that we’ll
be together again after life;
I want to die before you, my love,
it won’t hurt to give you every
morsel
of me,
you can have me:
take my heart and lungs; take my life
I promise to die before you—it’s the one
wind I’m unable to break”
Hugging someone you love
is the extraordinary motion of finality;
a cherished purity compels
our sincerest devotions
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