The Silence Between

 

Let marvelous images,

clouds of lies,

appear and dissolve in your

breathlessly silent

cobalt sky.

Within you is a magistrate

with woolly brows.

Within you is a soft shining girl

spilling goat milk from an ancient jar.

Within you is a stallion 

bronze as the melting sun 

on the horizon of a land 

you have not explored.

Within you are two earthworms

entangled in a passionate helix of rainbows,

both of them hermaphrodites.

Let the judge kneel, weighted down

by a single tear.

Let the little girl put her hand

on his cheek.

Let the stallion walk warily toward you,

then, at the sound of your voice,

bow his crown

to nuzzle your shoulder.

Let the worms go at it and churn

the dirt like bulls from heaven.

Let the terrible beautiful world

happen in the silence

between ideas.

Believe in nothing.

 

 

 

Illustration by David Onazzi for Outside Magazine