PANTOUM 1

 

As everything falls to pieces,

I shatter on the floor,

and the shards fly out

all around me.

 

I shatter on the floor

and the stars fall down

all around me,

ripping as they fall.

 

And as the stars fall down,

lightly through the clouds,

I see the sun,

ringing in the dawn,

crashing through the windows,

as everything falls to pieces.

7-6-2003