Orion Discovers the Sky and Fills It With Stars
Orion walks the ocean floor and finds that it is made of glass
thin and cracked, his weight is all it takes
and the ocean falls to whatever lies below
Orion falls too, and the ocean rushes him through the shattered floor, splintering him to pass through the cracks
He is thrown - tossed - pummeled by the force of the sea's passion as it swallows the space below
He hits something - not a bottom, but a top
Orion's fall through the ocean's fragile floor
breaking glass and walking on water
has left him suspended,
walking on the sky.
Orion walks the ocean floor and finds that it is made of glass
- it shatters under him and the bottom drops out, loosing the ocean to unknown depths.
In landing Orion is left stranded in the heavens
among the rubble of stars.
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