Principally Uncertain
I appear before you as coincidental limbs
mustered by a furnace
of shifting plates,
gravitate into a thought,
a membrane of feeling,
a vanishing point in the mountains.
How can the mind measure
place or proximity
unbeguiled by momentum?
A planet disappears in a blink.
Eyes shut,
powers of ten inside.
The self accumulates in plain sight
but only as a friction.
As true as disappearing.
I have to fade for the universe to run its fingers
through me, a mathematical inequality,
an essential limit.
What you see
when you see me
is an outline cast by the sun,
mercurial matter.
I dissolve in its spit-fire
burning love.
Jessica Lee McMillan is a poet and teacher with an English MA and creative writing certificate from SFU’s The Writer’s Studio. Her recent work can be read in The Malahat Review, QWERTY, Crab Creek Review, and Pinhole Poetry. Jessica lives in New Westminster, BC with her little family and large dog.
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