CANTO 84 A tantra boogie

 

A tantra boogie could be poetry seeking

its own dissolution in the wider field

or form that curves

back in upon

the grace note or gray snout

let out a great snort

so the chain breaks of its own accord.

 

Molecules rock rattle and roll

at a dizzying pace.

The boundaries spread their legs

doing a stretch that could multiply

to world peace!

 

The atoms

rotate around their bonds

a trillion times a second.

 

Anybody can do it

clamp onto that wave length, that lead.

With each tick of the clock

these bonds twist and bend

about ten trillion times.

 

Take a half-inch socket wrench

to the stuck hex nut of your head.

The atoms vibrate toward

and away from

each other at an even faster rate.

 

The long reach of the breath, what is it really?

Meanwhile entire molecules

slam-dance with their neighbors,

the taking in of what is,

the long reach of the breath.