With his ear pressed up against the air He listened to gravity On a newly-built train Gliding silent through the Holocene And through the countryside Past the grouses stained the ultramarine Of comic book eventide Can you fell the flow And the pull of the tail? The viscosity of space and name? The eddy of minds chained in slavery Embraced by the face in the flame? Tapped by midnight's wand of dew The peering eye decumbent Flared into an aleph hailing Starry sputum disassociated Cosmic epithelium a-trailing He watched a planet drifting through And the plane pulled itself through the air Slow as honey The whole sky moved with it