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Human Pair of Eyes, Moonlit, But Seeking Beyond

by Tom Goss

The lack of her cobalt-dipped orb
eyes beside mine halts
the return flight of each celestial beam
sent from the early universe.

In fear, the quantum pieces
of the earth/moon/us
bolted away from home
so much faster than light
that we found ourselves stranded.

Those particles/waves all
want to mount in our dark irises
like a pre-birth sculpture
made of twinkle-cool stars
and gravity-whipping singularities
that can penetrate the future
and instantly assemble all the scars
you collected in life just
to return them to you as a teen
so that you might feel more at home
in your own body.

03/17/2006

Author's Note: Partly inspired by Michelle Angelini's poem Full Moon: http://pathetic.org/poem.php?i_poemid=1142577197

Posted on 03/17/2006
Copyright © 2024 Tom Goss

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Max Phineas on 03/20/06 at 03:26 AM

That's magnificent. The middle stanza is just beautiful! Great piece.

Posted by Michelle Angelini on 03/20/06 at 07:23 AM

Tom, you cannot imagine how honored I am that one of my poems inspired you - when it's usually been the other way around. In your images I see celestial bodies come from the sky, returning to human bodies to lift them up again.
~Chelle~

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