Description
Catalyst for Ordination #1
it has been said
that in a vacuum-
which is to say,
a space without breath or [without a little]
wind in it-
feathers and rocks
will fall, like humans,
at exactly the same rate.
and those who saw
it happen, they said [a little]
he fell like a spider-
something about the limbs,
they said, and they said [a little]
the word, “carom”-
as if it applied to a human-
and manifest in that word
was the exact historic mixture
of hard sounds
battering soft-
and how beautiful,
his vestment fluttered- [a little]
and what if-
if he survived?
would we-