Weight

This is essential in order for take-off—
hands on shoulders, the remarkable spine,
ribs booming life.

So fix me here since the sliding axis,
since the newsreel politicians, since the flickering
casualties, the tickertape planets writhing like animals
pass through this touch, and I

can can’t
must glide

on the grasp of sighs in your fingers,
footsteps in flight &

still centered
promise gravity,

this openness,

here
come
rise

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