wing, blade, glass, step
the night stars cascade across the velvet sky
like a goblet of diamonds spilt by god on the dimensionless black curtain
that separates the earthly realm from the heavenly abyss
o, what stain!
beholding all its milky extravagance
atop these violet windswept dunes i'm overcome
by retroactive loss that blackens the hourglass
my life has been so long
yet how will i ever finish it