Bowl of Light - The Argotist Online

on arrogance
Of course you're beautiful
of course you are,
and bright because of it
what matters now is that
dextrous weaving of
transgression that brings us closer;
all the color in light
and tuned to breath,
a map ifyouwill thinking -
not only of tomorrow
but what would happen
if you were on a plane and
blinded before you land
how, then, will you greet them
spear pushers and phalanx binders
alike gathered to offer something
brittle and soft around edges
ill-defined as the map you wear in your
head
some stream crosses before your
unseen and therefore
unknowing toes
that stream is a sea, really
on the other side of which
of course you're beautiful
of course you are
and bright because