“ […] How absurd
to still have a body in this rainbow-gored,
crickety world and how ridiculous to be given one
Today’s epiphany is my own eyes
drawn to what might make them blind
a perfect orange marble, brightly hanging
& slowly rising toward every eventuality.
What a gift it is to see what you seek
& to know that it is something else as well,
before it disappears.
Before the eyes
go finally blind; before the body, gifted,
is returned to dust—needed to feed
the orange glow for the eyes of others.
