(As If) Beauty Never Ends (Dhikr)

after Jayce Salloum

Stop action
These petals open
Upon war
Their pure
White emerges
Not suddenly
Enough

Yet to this
Suddenness
The eyes dance
With the will
Now you see it
Now
You see it
Like the body
Taking a photo of itself
By itself
To conceive the
World again

Blink with me
Blink and blink
Blink and
Where we were
Happening here
Comes to mind
Mind constit-
utive of (((of))

Blink and with
Me blink
Where we are
And are again
Not among the
Dead
Barely covered by
The beauty
Of that cut