Hurrying There
I had a diamond reader read my life
out loud by a fire to no one. She said
that all the fluorescent nonsense I’d made
wouldn’t last. I agreed and asked her her
opinion on crystals: what can matter
be when arranged, regularly, with care?
“If we could build a house with many rooms
that all looked approximately the same
I’m not convinced we would. Instead I think
we’d set fire to the foundation and sit
in the resulting pit to talk about
all that has happened in our history,
its self-similar twists and (re)turns—
and we’d make it glow, softly, like plankton.”
–
Entirely Too Much
I am sitting
in a dream
house full
of objects
tin prince
little spoon
dollhouse
alleyway
& tree bark
lining the
floor—some
times phil
osophers
call us
“spacetime
worms” bc
we are
extended
shapes in
four di
mensions
I think
that’s true
& I am a
leaky worm
my five
hearts work
so hard to
love you
with a flesh
y sweetness
like rhubarb
& I want no
more than
for you
to pass yr
opalescent
evenings
with me
here
for all
our days
which is
to say I
want en
tirely
too much
& just
enough
–
Tom Snarsky teaches mathematics at Malden High School in Malden, Massachusetts, USA.
