Decoherence

The wind digs into the eternity

of the space of the empty chair,

scoops a portion of its silence

only seconds apart 

from the sweep of it

onto a bystander's brow,

like the other dimensional

host of the ghost

of you in your world

still there.

Sometimes you were so still

your wrist blending into

the building's columns in the background

when I squinted - the cigarette smoke

falling around it like passing clouds

So still, I think I could extract a portion of you

from the air -  

the iterations of you

staring into the space 

in which the wind is tossing.

There, tucked by arrangement of wood - 

a frame of sky and bush, and lush,

and curtain 

full of storm and shadow,

howling a kaleidoscope

of a sculpture of you.

But the worlds don't interact

they say.

All I have 

is an engram 

of the vision of you 

in that world

to be filed away.

An engram of the ethereal you 

rising to heaven. 

Each one, for each loss

and each version of me

who knows - 

the grateful me

giving a nod.

A map 

of an ensemble of cells

like a cratered moon

and its star specked sky to each world

firing in perfect synchrony

of which I can overlay

only over the Buddhist's Nirvana,

the staccato

of the long vibration in the single struck gong,

the ritual of silence

of the stoic's beaten path

buried in the deep, deep forgotten green

of the forest.

Someone says that there are no 

probable worlds

for the images that bleed

from behind closed eyes,

the inverse weight of wind

in the emptiness that you still carry - 

no god particle,

but there's a name for it

in every world.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Davidgeo]

Are you a fan of TS Eliot? The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock came to mind as I read this. (host of the ghost, ha, that's good stuff man)

I read your poem with an Anthony Hopkins voice in my mind. It's good. I read it again after listening to Anthony Hopkins read TS's Prufrock... I think you should listen to Tony Hopkins read Prufrock. I think it's awesome your styles overlap. He's a good writer to overlap with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLNsPhKlucY