Gold
oh these temple walls
are flaked, feathered,
caked in gold, gold
light as skin
they are skin
as the body moves
in dance along the halls
and fire-lit archways
all through the crystalline
resilience of space.
the gold, the gold
is radiance
that which pours, glistens
and turns into
everything
so that this tight weave
of form and pre-form
can reflect back its light
like facets, glittery facets
of an ornate mirror face:
by day, a world the gold sun
colors with our eyes,
by night, the star-hung
architecture
of space -
that which is between -
the facets are fields:
pulsars, particles,
our cupped hands -
fields of charge
and intercession,
and the core of these
is what is clothed
and flows and is glass-
like and dark and nothing,
nothing at all, but itself.
oh these temple walls
are flaked, feathered,
caked in gold, gold
light as skin
they are skin
as the body moves
in dance along the halls
and fire-lit archways
all through the crystalline
resilience of space.
the gold, the gold
is radiance
that which pours, glistens
and turns into
everything
so that this tight weave
of form and pre-form
can reflect back its light
like facets, glittery facets
of an ornate mirror face:
by day, a world the gold sun
colors with our eyes,
by night, the star-hung
architecture
of space -
that which is between -
the facets are fields:
pulsars, particles,
our cupped hands -
fields of charge
and intercession,
and the core of these
is what is clothed
and flows and is glass-
like and dark and nothing,
nothing at all, but itself.