weighs heavy
each body its own yet tethered by the next all
along a great trajectory not just space
but time too ties skin and flesh to earth and air
we travel as if this were a place
the place and it is but it is also just one place
the seeking, searching once complete-
because there can be a completening some call it resignation-
ends there, where the search began to begin
in the weightedness of skin and bone and blood and cells
in this body we each unwrap and wrap anew
each day. It is why we are here at all after all
no high state to unknot, but sure, go there to pay a visit then
realize we can only glimpse and smile
satisfy a bit of the longing, and go on living in this scaled fleshiness,
smiling again, and sigh.