Curve Of Cosmic Space

Curve Of Cosmic Space
© Surazeus
2023 08 13

At wood kitchen table in evening glow 
Kathy eats spaghetti with broken fork. 
Sparrows outside the window of her house 
talk about why phonelines sizzle with ghosts. 
Three boys ride bikes along the river trail 
as if Mercury is about to sing. 

Washing dishes slowly with tepid water, 
Kathy considers concept of the zero. 
New typewriter tries to measure arousal 
that humans feel when they look at each other. 
Three girls eat ice cream at the beauty parlor 
to calculate how heartache causes pleasure. 

Opening the fridge to assess her faith, 
Kathy ignores the screaming radio. 
Old scissors are hungry for the blue dress 
that dances lonely on the barbwire fence. 
Our universe is not quite parallel 
with lines that follow curve of cosmic space. 

Inside locked front door of the stone cathedral 
Kathy refuses to dismiss her value. 
Nine thousand angels in eye of the needle 
sing eerie hymns to honor Mother Ishtar. 
Three cats lounge lazily under the willow 
while planes drop bombs on cities of blind people. 

Pretending to be the dead movie star, 
Kathy shops at the corner grocery store. 
Three angels with messages for mankind 
watch the world cup soccer game at the bar. 
The boy with the rifle kills his best friend 
then smokes cigarettes by the railroad track. 

Sitting still before the hair salon mirror, 
Kathy asks her shadow if God is atoms. 
Every telephone in the empty castle 
rings at the same time for the lonely angel. 
The horse that walks with Death beside the ocean 
explains superior quality of reason. 

Mopping in Theater of the Absurd, 
Kathy cleans lost dreams from the sticky floor. 
The stone bridge built three thousand years ago 
watches the tortoise sneer at Mercury. 
Hiding in weird garden of apple trees, 
the Trickster God tells Kathy how he feels. 

Walking backward on the road to perdition, 
Kathy enters sales data in the spreadsheet. 
Getting married with Mercury in the garden, 
Kathy smiles for the demon of salvation. 
Naming her daughter for the moon-eyed raven, 
Kathy accepts there never was a Heaven.