On Eroded Solar Masses
Say each eroded molecular cloud
contained uncountable solar masses
not typical but density per cubic centimeter
welling up across a million years
never speaking of the highest suns through a totem of errors
but totem
taking from density no known error
alive as pattern
as irrational ascension
sans squared impalpable quanta
its implacable winds
teeming sub-flow as absentia
Original Language
As a blizzard of birds
as Hottentots
as density by phonemes
Borderless Hypotactic
Not strategic salvo by mass
or ultra sonic compendium as confine
but simultaneity alive
as unpredictable dys-function
akin to itself as borderless hypotactic
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Excerpted from Divine Blue Light (for John Coltrane) by Will Alexander. Copyright © 2022. Available from City Lights.
