Tuesday, May 4, 2010

When the Planets Align

A bit of Dickinson lives in me,
somewhere between my thumb and index finger.

She crosses my T's and dots my I's,
each stroke varied, precise, inspired,
like Pollock's masterworks.

I nod to her Bee, her Butterfly, her Breeze,

grateful for these rare moments
when the planets align,

and everything that tells me I live
flows from my heart, through my veins, through my hands,
through keys and through wires, through ones and through zeros,
through me, through time and space, to you.

2 comments:

Edward Yoo said...

The last two lines of this poem were from a poem I wrote years ago. I was looking through my older work, and thought, "Hey, I like these lines, but I hate this poem." I'm not sure if they're working here either.

Chris Andrews said...

I like this. It's a simple declaration. Ars Poetica type, and I actually think that you fit the last lines in pretty seamlessly.