skimming the metallic teal mountain ridge up where the wind dies
a
black phoenix rises slowly
perpendicular to clouds shot through with violent red
past lives jetstreaming outward from a faint
fracture in the
far
beyond driven heavy metal ultraviolet exoskeleton shell glued to midair
by
piercing scents of tired allegheny mountain pine
trees below
and
jagged blue concrete reinforced sky above
heavy and listless
gliding over the magnetic twilight
engaged in his 99th cross-sectional search for an epiphany up there
in the sky
the
phoenix maintains altitude
propelled by the positive terminal battery current of his mate’s halfhearted
scripted attempts to disengage from him
an
event horizon is immanent
appears
above a gray shrouded mountain ridgetop
the
invisible boundary between normal space and black hole gravity space
the
point at which light begins to turn back upon itself
detached amusement
as
the phoenix observes the object of his body entering her event horizon
his
cellular neutrinos quickly derailing
wailing
collapsing under the combined weight of
matter and energy spiraling down into a single brilliant point
focused on the instant of time that he looked into her eyes
when past and future tense was obliterated