Solaris

I tried to bring the drop of sunlight to the moon’s precipice

Then the vial went dark

I thought my specimen were tarnished, pray, merely dormant

And in thy eyes did the pupils light up like stars

Bringing for the cold peace of the night

For then did I truly see the distant novas and galactis hovering in your mind

I realized then where we stood

The edge of the planets was merely the illusionment of some childhood fantasy

But this empty country road held more for me

The yellow lines in a blue hue

As the pitch of the road beneath our feet went toward east and west’s expansions

Your smile glowing in the dark

Making the stars spin and twirl

I felt as if I’d be surely uprooted and purged

But only could I smile widely in return as the world whipped about in the still

So quiet that not even the crickets dared

To call upon the gods they worshipped in the night

If wine were blue and tasted of ice

Then this were surely the goblet in which we swam

Like lovers swimming in a velvet sky

You see now how the moon makes all beautiful

And in her wake the starlight turns the brown grasses and almond blossoms white

Why even the dust could be a pale cobalt ocean

The sky presses down on us with impossible weight

You can nearly feel the expansion caving in or quite possibly paradoxally pulling us up

How can it be that we are here?

We laugh like children

Clinging to one another like children laughing upon the abyss

Our laughter echoes into the night

Ringing out like lovers’ song among the emptiness

Haunting the small world

Reviews

[Cliff Rhodes]

..Very beautiful and rhythmic inflection into a galaxy of unbounded imagination.

Reminds me of the movie, Solaris, 2002, with George Clooney and Natascha McElhone, which is a favorite of mine. That is...the idea of it, not necessarily old George, but I really liked the ghostly character of Rheya in Solaris.