sleep

How do you read
the body in shadows
(beset by suspicions of
depth perceptions being but
desultory illusions)?

the head tilts, limbs move
and figures grow and shrink
like your sense of effacing time
fill you with fear as much as delight,
like the taste of your memories.

but thats not right.
no.take the strings away
from your mind's manacled clasp,
and focus on the body.
follow each movement. closely.
and let the universe
in all its big bang-ness
bring you to this.
moment.place.
(if they are indeed separate.)
a stage of lights where

caliginous lives play out
to the music of atoms
once suspended in mandated
orbital loops of order and
now crashing into one another.

don't get distracted.
watch the body.read the shadow.
read the body.watch the shadow.
see if you can weigh in
on the 21 grams.