Corps du Cosmos

Each cell, a tiny galaxy, turns around a hidden fire.

A core keeps watch, an orbit aligns, a spark arranges matter.

Blood speaks to the sea, the sea answers the stars.

The tides of the body follow the tides of the sky, and my pulse learns their language.

coded passage – MEZ ج✳

CAA CAG CAT

la— lag— lai—

CAA CAT CAG

la— lai— lag—

coded passage – SOP ⍟✶

AAA AAG AAT

a—a—a— ga—ga— at—

AAG AAA AAT

ga—ga— a—a—a— at—

I walk through my flesh like a landscape of stars.

My bones remember mountains, my breath remembers ancient forests.

Each pulse, a sun rising; each exhale, night returning.

Love becomes gravity.

I circle the other the way Earth circles its fire,

with living distance, with tuned trajectory,

inside the fragile balance of space.

I stand in a moving center, where the universe breathes through me.

The world lives inside my beats.

I am the planet and the passenger, the wind and the sail, the voyage and the shore.

In the shadow of my flesh, galaxies ignite.

In the breath of my voice, the threshold remembers.

coded passage – CON ☍✦

TAA TAT TAC

hum— ha— ah—

TAT TAC TAA

ha— ah— hum—

And in this vast trembling, I meet the obvious:

to be alive is to dance with everything.