Intermezzo / the 2nd part

I’m a resident in a space where

oxygen is relegated to a rare commodity;

where asteroids make a ring of iron, circling 

the Earth in search of a breach in its security; where

above the beyond, the young Seven Sisters embrace

one another with arms of fire;–– where dark matter

waits silently for our determination.

I’m standing upon a substantive platform

which is the way the home planet used to be before

complicating itself with its spherical enlightenment. 

why it is I'm jumping at a fever's pitch is anyone's guess.

suddenly I'm female. I'm young. I'm black. I'm jumping

as if I’m at the center of a double-dutch, and then...

swiveling my tired, blanched body out of bed, I take comfort

in knowing there is an up and down to space if only in the space

between the floor to the soles of my feet.