Spheres

Pardon my space imagery
but I can never resist
the Renaissance notion
that we are each
a universe unto ourselves
& if the orbit of my metaphor
disrupts your ellipse
try to remember that someday
I’m likely to collapse
in upon myself.


first appeared in The Buffalo News Sunday July 4, 1993                                                
sold to Midnight Zoo in 94, unclear if actually published there
collected in Olives May 20, 1995    
reprinted in Images  May 2002
collected in Beneath the Greasepaint  12/29/03