She Held up the Sky (for my Teacher, Chozen Roshi)

It was a dark night

The kind that allows

The stars to extend their rays

Like hands reaching

Down

Touching Earth

In hues of

Golden delight

Become that sky she said

And it was day and I was night

And the milky way

That river of stars

My body

Perhaps i never came back 

She held up the sky

And I entered

Mind pock marked by black holes

Space dancing across cerebellum

Between gray and white matter

Inside each synapse

As galaxies flow through my nostrils

And comets descend my colon

A cosmos in the making

It ain’t always pretty

This universe

But its what we are

Art by: Lucia Calleja