Of Abandonment and Gravity

          Of Abandoment And Gravity

Momentous descent toward the sudden center

Wings just as water –

Stones just as air –

Fire, sodden and deliquescing-

Mountains, a draft of wind.

Emergence of the quintessence

At every axis point of time-space,

An imploding cynosure

Of gravity’s abandonment to love…

The myriad things intent upon a whisper

Dissolving in a single heartbeat

A blossom of lightning in the blood

A spiral swiftly pulling a pearl's iridescence

Down to a shuddering point-

The long cry of earth to become gold.

August, 2019.        North Beach/Hilo, Hawaii