Emptiness

"More emptiness" I said,

"and more, and more."

When someone asked me

what was in my bag

I said "More emptiness."

Where the house is not

is where the room is.

The rest of the volcano

is sky.

"More emptiness" again

"and more, and more."

"But what about the lives

that we have lived

and all the buildings

and poems we made?"

I see you.

We are two black holes

in a vast night.

A van in neutral

rolling down a hill

unoccupied.

"More emptiness" again

"and more, and more."

I stood next to the river

and threw a large sheet

of glass

as far as I could in.

The way the water

was cut in two,

the sword in sky

was mind only

forming this one thought:

emptiness

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