Choose a path.
Repeat 3 times to reach conclusion.

Heavy is light.
Hold the frayed end.
Keep the horizon far,
no farther
than an eye from its lid.
To the beginning
all return
at the end.
swings
fractures,
loops.
splits
A thirst
that drinks
its own salt.
To reflect the moon,
like water against the tide,
you must stand still.
Hold. Drown.
Until lungs
collapse into gills.
Ocean with no salt
Can’t preserve a soul
Can’t carry a ship.
Only stillness
reflects
the sky.
It breaks
to become
whole.
Like a mountain
trapped in quicksand,
stand.
Rust is nothing
but the memory of earth
on iron’s lips.
Clay, whirled into a vase,
can not forget
it once cradled trees in the wilderness.
clots
Blocks,
Chokes.
locks.
Seizes.
Holds breath.
The unseen moves first.
The body follows
without knowing.
The wind carries,
keeps nothing.
Only through carrying
does it exist.
A star, lost,
is a guide if found
by a traveler’s fingertip.
A flightless bird.
A precipice.
Waiting for the fall.
elongates,
flees.
Breaks away.
thins out.
Evaporates.