The Space Needle and Art


Space

by Linda Lane

You want space?
I hearby give you

The space of this universe and all other universes
that ever were, are now, and are yet to form,
and without exception all the spaces they contain,
both within them and outside of them,
between each and every molecule,
all atoms,
peculiar to particles,
stuck between sub-particles,
antithetical to antimatter,
and all the undiscovered space there is,
might be,
was ever imagined, thought of, or never considered
or exists unwound;
further I give you all the space between all universes appearing,
and the eons of time that stretches between their placement or creation.

I give you

The space between the states of being,
from all beings that ever assumed form,
the space between this side of the hangman's trap door
and when it opens,
death's needle and that last light glimmer of life,
the space between a mistake and recognition of it,
the space between an event and its last laugh,
the big space between starvation and death,
the space between the rustling of feathers
and the shapeshifting dances of shadows,
the space in mirrors placed face to face:

the very emptiness of space,
the very space of space,
the very what not of space;

all the space any child has ever or will ever perceive when looking at the stars,
or listening to a transmission from a distance of any kind,
any space between the asking of a question and understanding the answer,
I give you the gracious idea of transcendental space,
and the space of time it would take a worm to advance to human
then aspire to become absolutely enlightened
and achieve it.

I give you

All the space on this page,
and everywhere
in fact I hereby give you all
the precious nature of space of all the kinds
there are or have been or ever will be,
so much space, that from now on,
you must always contact me first,
because I miss you my friend,
and so I give you that space too.

p.s. yes, I give you the Space Needle.



August 24, 2004
Seattle, Washington
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