part 6
Intelligence
responds
to you,
or
you to it,
conversing
with
companion
stars.
Once,
perhaps
you trapped a caterpillar in a jar
cocooned
to be reborn
take
flight,
and
navigate by a single star.
All
the
knowledge and experience
hidden
in the style of a ship's design
collects
the fictitious future/past/
present
in the continuum of time.
Now
tracing a path
that
bends with gravitas
through
the night sky...
Or,
does
the sun block out the stars,
until
you see a shadow pass,
and
in darkness count the candlelights
flickering
in the cosmic shrine.