Poem: Partial Prime Design

“Partial Prime Design” 2011.10.29 (11, 7, 5, 3, 2 and 53, 41, 23, 7, 7)

Beneath the bright banner
Of sierra skies
The milky way stretches without resolve
And into our world
Flecks of the universe dissolve
Over head and under covers
We try to make sense
Of all the innumerable bodies
That strike us
Why some tilt our axis
And the others accumulate only as dust

From the dusty trail we depart
To wrap ourselves around a mountain
And to swim in a cold blue alpine body
Upon whose shores
We are wrapped in late summer’s heat
And swim beneath your shawl in the humid warmth of each other’s breath
While Goethe calls from peak to peak

In the meadows far below
Prime petals punctuate
The serene green of life
Where a river of glass
Cuts the land in two

Cloud fire
Leads back
To our Origin

Next to Goethe
We watch stars fall