Who am I? What am I?

Hello starshine and dust

Infinite cosmos and energy

How are you this morning?

Dazzling and blinding 

And alive and here

And that is all to say

I am infinite this morning

Glittering and empty

Full, and wholly alone

That is to say

Combustible

My breath 

births universes

My eyelashes

the rays of the sun

My skin

Is a planets rings

My words

Moons and stars

Every step I take

Births life

Wild brambles, honeysuckle 

And lavender grow

With the brush of my fingertips

Pools and ocean

Surge beneath my skin

And at the very core of me

A pulsing centre

Of molten iron

I am alive and destructive

Simple and defiant 

And every time I blink

Stars and planets die

And are reborn

The cycle

Begins again

What am I?

A human?

The universe?

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Notes from the Garden