from San Ildefonso Nocturne
I am at the entrance to a tunnel
These phrases drill through time.
Perhaps I am that which waits at the end of the tunnel.
I speak with eyes closed.
Someone
has planted
a forest of magnetic needles
in my eyelids,
someone
guides the thread of these words.
The page
has become an ants’ nest.
The void
has settled at the pit of my stomach.
I fall
endlessly through that void.
I fall without falling.
My hands are cold,
my feet cold –
but the alphabets are burning, burning.
Space
makes and unmakes itself.
The night insists,
the night touches my forehead,
touches my thoughts.
What does it want?