weighs heavy

each body its own yet tethered by the next all

along a great trajectory not just space

but time too ties skin and flesh to earth and air

we travel as if this were a place

the place and it is but it is also just one place

the seeking, searching once complete-

because there can be a completening some call it resignation-

ends there, where the search began to begin

in the weightedness of skin and bone and blood and cells

in this body we each unwrap and wrap anew

each day. for it is why we are here at all after all

no high state to unknot, but sure, there to pay a visit then

realize we can only glimpse and smile

satisfied a bit, and go on living in this scaled fleshiness,

smiling again, and sigh.