Earthbreak
At earthbreak
thru a cat's eye
the float is remote
the stun is the numb,
not even the cold
or the bitter
too-well-knowns.
Instrument readings
yield no signs of life
just a stutter off the chart
no one kept,
needles palsied,
cables cut.
At starbreak
through a cat's eye
the human unformed
sloshes the suit,
joins its oblivion to
the music of the
spears, dancing
endless nocturne
free never to reappear
in gravity's
clinging chain.
Was that a bluebird
blurred in a flash of sun
dropping like time
on tomorrow's butterfly,
or only a mote,
flickering at earthbreak
in a gold cut-glass cat's eye?
July 2020
posted for Fireblossom at
Images: Top, author and title unknown, via Sunday Muse Fair Use
Bluebird, by John Jacob Audobon (manipulated) Public Domain
