st. ill

saint ill &
still the moon
like love
spiraling
further and
further away
from the earth
with each revolution
around - just a fraction
but enough to add up over
time and the mind wonders
if the other love exists - the
strengthening of gravity.
so much so that the
two planetary bodies
gradually move closer
and closer to each other
eventually to crash and
merge into one...

is gravity weakening the
norm? i take readings
with the computer in
my visor out here in
space as i travel
from place to
place but i
can't see
a pattern.

or rather,
the pattern
frightens me
as i toughen up
in the vacuum of
the immensity of
the universe ex-
panding.

is love like matter
in motion once set
in motion? does the
inertia always dissipate?

love isn't geometry, though,
because most of us by now
know love doesn't happen
simply from point a to point
b.

the circumference of my feelings.
the square root of my love locked
away. in algabraic terms, what does
the equation simplify to? what is X and
what is Y?