DOWNWARD

DOWNWARD

upward
downward

suddenly those adverbs
of direction and momentum
don’t mean
what they used to
any more

unless
you me
go full-on Catholic
Saint, binary star system

levitate
above below
thence go
into orbit about each other

Oh not so many bodies
have I been beside
performed
“open the
pod bay door” docking
maneuvers

floating through Space
full Odyssey star-child

as
if out of body

which experience seems
I am not entirely alien to
(to me it
is not entirely alien)

though
in a former, lesser,
lover/avatar and
incarnation

you did tell me it was indigestion
or something of that ilk

could
only have been

(this marking downward limit
as far as we could go)