bright. luminous.

bright                                                    luminous

 The universe is made of distance and of dust

                                                                                Anna Leahy

Maybe dreaming requires sleeping that sleeps

long—long enough to be called

sleep, and if it’s being

called won't it wake up depending

on the distance between

the caller and the called

like the distance between the meaning

of brightness and luminous

one observed from how far

and what lens and the other

perceived like a dream all dreams

not being equal that may rely on day

upon day of making and putting up

like in jars observations but need,

to be considered luminous, some-

thing that can receive sound-

waves and for the moment it takes

to translate it into pulses, the pause

before it begins to throb and then extend
beyond its reach.