.
Somewhere
in the other world,
which
Calvin daily visited 
to
do his morning exercises,
strengthening
and stretching
his
great lengthy limbs, he looked
around,
while leaning back, to see
a
twirling up of coiling tender 
threads
and slender lines attain
.
the
height appropriate to meet 
his
eyes, and suddenly the whirligig 
and
Calvin knew that they were 
destined
to be lovers. In the other 
world
you don’t need any covers 
to
protect you from the eyes 
of
passersby – indeed the other 
world
encourages the overt act.
.
And
so, without the need for tact, 
they
tangled up in public in bright 
yellow
light: and caused a new 
inimitable
fact to come to pass: 
a
hybrid knot of linearity and mass 
the
likes of which no creature 
either
here or in the other world 
would
ever have predicted to exist.
.
So
that’s what happened when
the
whirligig and Calvin kissed.
By
now, though, they’re a yawn.
The
other world and we await
the
dawn of something newly
aberrant:
even if, as with 
the
whirligig and Calvin, we
won’t
stay interested for long.
.


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