-Intermezzo / the 2nd part

I’m a resident in a space where rockets go,

where asteroids make a ring of iron 

circling for a breach in our security,–– where the young

Seven Sisters gather among themselves

with arms of fire,–– where dark matter

waits for its true definition.

I’m standing upon a substantive plank which is

the circle of the Earth, a platform the way Earth 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.