Gravity

[thedissident]

"I will go to the moon",
she decided, having listened to her teacher.
The lesson, intended to provoke wonder
as urchins peered into the chill autumn sky,
had taught her that hearts are like planets
whose inhabitants errantly seek diets and liposuction.

"Sixteen percent", he lectured, was their moon weight.
Weight, this newly ephemeral encumberance -
travel

Comments

[twelveamdawn]

I found your piece incredibly beautiful, but incredibly cryptic at the same time. I've read it over carefully a few times and I am having trouble making sense of what this piece is supposed to mean.