Losing Gravity
Con/Jur/d, 4/13/2022

Understand what he means now
“If you want to fly higher put your
feet firmly in the  G
                    R
		    O
		    U
		    N
		    D”

“As if you had a choice,”
we argued, being young
and subject to Saturn rising
but not yet the	R
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		T
		U
		R
		N

I hand wrote a mad letter
to him saying as much,
Dear Antero Alli,

	“I agree with every -
	thing you said yet
	you got it all wrong”

I was a child
although it was less
than half a lifetime ago

as the permanent
loss of gravity
A
P
P
R
O
A
C
H
E
S

when we will
no longer be subject to its laws
lacking a body
we find	R
	O
	O
	T
	S

R		R
O		O
O		O
T		T
S		S

to be of ever-increasing importance,
not simply the ones of soil, genes and
water, but the rootlets that	D
				E
				S
				C
				E
				N
				D
into the atom
into the galaxy
into the blackhole

Eagerly penetrating the everpresent
everlasting everexpanding evercontracting
infinite in every direction in both Time & Space
the place where	        P
			O
			E
			T
			R
			Y
comes from
and too soon
we will return.