Bataille wants me to kill it I think, or knows that it must die
Shrinking heads, receding and I have to choose I think
Between Generals X and Y
This is what comes of “empty”
My gaping mouth though,
Opens for a camera, needs investigating this.
Don’t you think?
At the heart of it is a shifting unformed thing, grows and stalls and eats itself,
Empty at the heart of things
They said it is too full, needs less, needs less
Meditate:
My eyes, my breath
become eyes and breath
become seeing and breathing
become other
I speak in circles; I am all falsehood; I am false
Somewhere between yesterday and fluttering eyelids you were the warmth on my back surrounding me whole,
I could not see you and I was only hands facing an open window (I could not see myself)
You were the warmth on my back, the comforting weight of you familiar
Familiar?
The invisible weight, sun yielding
Sun restrained, restrained
You were sun
The realness of you pressing soft enough to bruise the moment eyelids fluttered open
Real enough to bruise the thing that must recede, real enough
But I was empty before, wasn’t I, and
what is a heart but undefined anyway?
You were warm though, beautiful and borderless and pressing before half-light
unseen
And it unmade me,
It unmade