Reflex Theory
The body draws from
memory and shifts
its full weight unto the day.
I draw you close to me
proximity
through unnamed memories as if
today
were yesterday.
I draw you at a distance
through memories that
have become subtitled
photography.
The day is full of this balance.
My body is drawing from memory.
The full day is heavy in its totality
but these unnamed memories are
weightless—an unfinished count
of eyelashes
86,400 seconds of weightless day.
1440 minutes of weightless words telling
stories in the 1st person
I was you.
The balance is coy
A shift in either direction
and it will swallow me
whole.
I draw on your memory
fully
through the weight of the day.
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