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Interstice

Matthew Guzman

life without this sort of examination is not worth living... (line 38a) – The Apology

There are no constants,
only approximate errors,
only the odds for success.

Each of these is filled with
interstellar space, infinitely wide
or narrow areas of transition, the secrets

of time and distance.
Anyone can identify and describe
moments of incredible ecstasy.

Most could recognize agony
if only in its contrast to delight.
Moments in-between, however,

whisper the silence of sunlit
honey on a wooden floor.

Floating through the embryonic
fluid, nestled in the womb,
unable to stow these memories, these

moments in time. For in the womb
one has not seen the way shadows
dance while sitting under pewter moonlight.

I have dreamt of a time before
comparison, like a chicken who
knows only the metal wire, the cage.

In the dream my feet melt
into the ground, the earth
and I become interconnected.

There is neither moan nor laughter,
only an incredible silence; cantos
of nothingness, the death Socrates

speaks of in his Apology,
the sleep of blackness which one
never shakes. Between dream

and that which is not dream,
in-between ecstasy and agony
I wait, sitting under an ashen moon,

watching as the clouds
move in silence.



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