This is for the quiet behind your words, the songs vibrating in the back corners of your silences, for the shapes you have been noticing in the ceiling after dark; how they move in your nameless mystery. This is for the impulse to close your eyes when you've had enough of looking, to find the shadows just as present as the bursts and squiggles of colored luminescence spiraling across eyelid-curtains after you stop watching.
This is for your still-seeing even then, for the way you knew you could fly like you knew a mailbox could morph into a griffin; a streetlamp into a vine, from which you might swing across a rising river and drop safely on dry land––to wave at your enemies, scratching their heads.
This is for the rippled reflections over water when you touched it for the first time––really touched it–– feeling it as babies do: Now it's a boundary, now you're breaking through; now it's a horizon; now it's swallowing your hand, your knowing screams of "Aaaaaah! Ha! Oooh!" against each splash.
This is for your hand––the speaker of the moment, do you remember? Chubby and sure of itself without even fine motor skills, already fluent in an ecstatic dialect, intimate with joys of pressing itself against what it cannot hold.
Stellar Nursery in the Rosette Nebula
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