I left my world, briefly Not long ago A daguerreotype world Two dimensional Of routine and knee-jerks Where the hamster cannot exit His weary wheel Where merry-go-round steeds Bear only olive drab Circling riderless To monotones played for asylums And all is designed To swallow my humanity In cryogenic increments I entered your world, briefly Not long ago Two dimensional Silver and black And yet there was infinite room Your scintillating path Shimmered in diamond splendor Gently stretching toward seamless horizon A luminous belly dance Undulating a glorious path Across dark waves tonguing your length You followed my transit With a lover’s loyal ease My desire burned for you Like a magma embrace As your peristaltic overtures Beckoned life in me I walked out on you In a trance of rapture And reached up to touch Passionate moon face Bled silver down my fingers Until I could see my reflection In my burnished hand And I smiled a secret smile That has never waned Soon I was at port Back in the world of the dead Having birthed a new dimension It will never overcome