beginning, relatively
innocuous
extraneous
stuff—harsh
black
coffee and rocky
sweet peanut
butter—collide
and glob
together, stopping-
up the cold
enormously
alone
space in the vast
turbulent
pit of your stomach.
Thus
coalesced,
some
other parts
of the same system—start
to receive
signals, become
galvanized,
and before
long, your fertile mind
is humming,
and it
turns,
like the earth:
bright—
but not
with its own light.
