What If Dark Matter

[“…what if dark matter is like space between people…” Tracy K Smith Life on Mars]

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What if dark matter is like the space between people
intentions looking for a surface of pores to land
a desire melting fast like an ice cube liberated
spinning on the floor beneath you me or another
so soft unwritten disappearing in and out
of focus at least electricity strikes a light
there’s a reaction burning up like love or pain
these circles of life overlap each other I can’t feel
alone anymore my loss is less than shrinking thought
those things I once thought go on without me it’s not
so dark after all our perfect planets collide
or otherwise disrupt each other’s atmospheres
meanwhile another week passes unnoticed
it’s disconcerting is it exodus or migration
these runaway thoughts as if this were nothing
out of the ordinary as if we actually existed
but we died a minute ago everything rolled
tumbled in the gyres we’ll never know
the half of it I’m falling asleep fingertips
heavy on the keyboard I swear
yesterday you came alive for a moment