imagine this:
your life strung out
on a line, on a series of lines. the sum of you
peeled apart and dissected and laid bare.
imagine your memories
radiating endlessly outward, glasslike
and glowing, making crystalline patterns
of sunshine and dust. these patterns making cracks
behind your eyes. each crack leaking dreams. imagine
yourself and your body and at the center of it
a circle of constant light.
(you are standing in the circle. the light
is blinding.)
imagine time
forgetting to breathe. the supple darkness
between its heart and lungs
suddenly expanding past eternity. billowing outward,
coiling. not a stutter
but a pause. a space
ju