Occasional Impressions

Gemini 3

Who he?

If this person were a sound
he would be silence.

If this person were a shape
he would be a circle.

If he were a substance,
he would be the space between stars,
where light travels wingless
to show us what is past.

If a place, the desert,
full to the brim with nothing -
or the black depths of the sea,
where black fish swim.

If a state of mind,
he would be vacancy,
filled with footsteps.

But if he were an animal
he would be a whale,
or a growing thing, a tree.
A sudden vastness from nothing
that would make you laugh aloud
but for its causeless beauty.

If he were an expression
he would be a smile
against grey rocks and blue grottoes.

And his weather is midsummer sun,
stirring the air as it sizzles
across green lawns to the house on the hill.

And his distance is
as close as thought to thought
as far as thought from thing.

And if this person were a part of the body
he would be hands.

And if he were words
he would be the circle
at the centre of the o.

ijf

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