Recycle
On and on and on and on
I fly past every edge
I abandon the specific
To embrace all things
My pieces fall away
Fingers drop
Legs and arms discarded
I gather into myself every flower
I grow a million eyes to see
And ten billion hearts to love
I am the stars exploding life-dust into space
I am the galaxies as they collide
I am the beginning of endless worlds
I multiply by factorials
On and on and on and on
I become uncountable
Then beyond uncountable
Then beyond the mathematics of any counting
Into the densest void
Where there is neither death nor beauty
Nor any kind of truth
Beyond all ability to sense
Beyond all ability to feel
Beyond all ability to comprehend
Beyond imagination
Until I emerge somewhere
Damp and fresh
Until someone slaps me
And I breathe
This poem was published in the Autumn 2014 issue of Illumen.