there's the inside and
there's the outside

the offering is not the candle
but the smoke that rises
lighter than the Word
which is to say
here, rise up to the sky:
be air

same so i am a costume i put on
and take off
the face you see
might be anything,
opening
the asteroid-snake
of my life,
here in time,
is ore inside the mountain
the salt in the green sea
i am
the visible
invisible