Skyscape (A gloomy insect-cloud)
Skyscape
A gloomy insect-cloud
reaches its cloud-legs
flaps its cloud-wings
in slow motion.
Above, the eye
of a Chinese dragon
considers not.
Sun rays make its teeth.
Its nose extends.
Fish swim through ice floes.
An eel, an eel
is caught in mid-slither.
Far off, the head of a whale
maybe
a whale that stretches around the world
with a head in the east and a tail in the west
and in the south its belly is hazy and gray
with water and darkness and destiny.
If this were a view of heaven
but this is of earth.
This is the curved edge
of the world.