“. . .Through the multitude of faces that suffered I stared at my own.

I saw my grieving death mask in the oar,

and I was the death staring back at me. . .”

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I

“As the particle floats beyond my vision, so do I.

I am the particle from a particle’s eye view.

Judging the see through mirror as it judges me onto a transparent infinity.”

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II

The sum of all of the parts.

Such is an observation from the writer’s perspective.

God looking down from the rest of creation.

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Deep in her bold innocent eyes I fell, and drowned

in the well of her single tear. Lost in the dimensions

divided within the color of her amber Iris.

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