Upon Revisiting My Mind
Julie Steeper, inspired by Weightless Installation
York, PA 2008

At first glance,
you stood as stoic
and as impressive,
as an inverted city skyline
of stalactites swaying
from heaven’s stuccoed ceiling.

I thought you reached towards me,
beckoning me
into the heart of you
(as cities do),
but you remained aloof,
upon my blinking.

You hang as individuals –
a seemingly complete
puzzle,
with staggered,
fragile pieces –
Mosaiced, not melded,
kept solitary within your
Mesh Sensors…
my defenses.

Has it really been all these years
that these thoughts
were noosed on invisible wires
of mass suicide,
whose synapses
I falied to connect?

These fragments stand
in all their copper chocolate
and mesh-bled
black and red,
dripping wired diamonds
as my thoughts –
these 3-D ghosts
snow upon me
with glowing edges –
sharp and torn,
as massacred snowflakes.

I’ve returned to this ached
only to realize that
I never really knew this city –
this wasteland of harsh wire shards –
to begin with.