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The Mystery

By Brooks Lampe

Illustration by Yibeni Tungoe

Even the sky passes through her now, 

vault of undifferentiated space, container

of the uncontained form lasting forever. 

                                                      Whatever she is 

all angles go to her, each particle 

a teeming vale. Imaginary worlds come to rest in her, 

flow out again, nourished from her lap. Geysers lift

diurnal brows, and ice floes slide 

across her breasts. The room I live in

is a whisper of her, emptiness of emptiness, 

vibrating string of folded questions.

Our passions wait for transformation 

promised by that fire womb, 

                                heaven joined to us. 

What else could our dreams mean, 

dreams reborn inside a cave 

booming with zenzizenzizenic light 

shot out and subsisting forever 

in slow prosaic fall?


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Posted On: March 6, 2026
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