GUIDE: HOW TO BE WHOLE AGAIN 1. take a gulp of interstellar gas (taste the stars dancing on your tongue; feel the cosmic dust tickling your throat) 2. dip your toes into the cloud of particles hovering at your feet (planets circle around your ankles; gravity is relative) 3. run your fingers through the inexhaustible space around you (hold the darkness in your palms like it is a tangible thing; time is infinite) 4. let the galactic tide wash over you (multitudes of celestial bodies fit against your body like puzzle pieces) 5. inhale; (meteors rattle your lungs and paint luminous streaks along your ribs; new-born stars bloom from the trails of ice and dirt) 6. exhale; (a globular cluster condenses just inches from your lips and whirls in interminable orbit; close your eyes and feel the solar flares kiss your lashes) 7. let the spiraling nebula swallow you whole (constellations tangle in your hair and deconstruct along your cheeks; the galaxy unfolds against your skin)
you are whole again
vade mecum series, pt.1 (j)
