Something Large and Gentle

There may be, before the Earth

produces you, incorporating

energy that pulls you into ‘birth,’

a timeless preparation in which something

large and gentle helps you slowly to construe

how to effect an incarnation – learn

that nothing can be something in the flesh.

You’ll wrangle with the oddness of a body

moving through, below, around and over ‘space’ –

and undertake to find the seed of singularity

you must appear to be – the psychic ‘place’

you must inhabit: the strange idea you’ll have

a ‘face.’ We’d like to think that there is this.

It’s softer than the thought

that we erupt from an abyss.





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