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Out of my own being
to fashion
a virgin pure staircase
with walls of pale cream
and early lemon sunlight
burgeoning in at the
window
it illumines nothing more
than itself
and the staircase
and the wall
and the well
on the other side of the staircase
into nothingness
into colorless shadows
milk grey mist
*
I woke one morning
years ago
and
turning my myopic
eyes in on my room
which was both study and bedroom
at the time
I glanced around
my eyes came to rest on a void
a milk grey void
I blinked my eyes
I said to myself: "A void?"
I leaned up on my elbow
I stared.
I blinked
I squinted
I stretched far out from the bed, I said:
"There is no such thing
as a void
in nature."
nonetheless there
between the legs of a chair
and a coffee table
right there was
a mist grey void
I could see
nothing in it
nothing beyond it
and all around it
familiar furniture, artifacts
my life
my life's collection
"I am awake," I said, and, "my eyes are
open
and five feet across the room
from me is a void."
as I reached for my 31asses I thought:
No, I'll enjoy this.
I woke one morning
years ago
staring into
The void
perhaps
*
I cannot lean far enough over the stairway
banister to look into the well
of the void
and as far as I can see
in this vision of mine
of pale cream walls
lemon yellow light
the stairway is there
but I'm not
On it
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