just an eye

a fish's luminescent sleep

a mind's sand river

a cloud's plutonium thread

asterisks cluster on a waist

commas flicker on a skin

periods iterate in the azure

is descendant moth

is rudderless surf

is transparent labyrinth

lamination of a breeze

hollowing of a book

longing of a hand

the slashing of an eye

the ladder of an eye

the sentence of an eye

After Ivan Argüelles'

“variations on a line” & “poet , the”