by LE Francis
after “Harmonies of the World” by Johannes Keppler
Heart, sun, & hearth star, a synastry of light years, brightly wound measures drag a moment across the slope of the sky; gravity of metric gallop caught in the beats between his fingers & the echo in the throat of heaven. There is resonance wherever there is emptiness & there is nothing more empty than god, than existing, than my mind in the moment our eyes met. Let my prayer ring in the dissonance between intention & the unconquerable power of heaven; let it ring in the dead heart of a faraway star; let it ring in the fusion fires, dying as the night ebbs. Could I hold the scarlet consonance of Mars in the dread well of my body? The minor mode of Jupiter answers my heart when I cannot answer to the music of his eyes. Natural system, true note, every movement has an answer, a dulcet tone against the universal root & all that is empty rings with the jewelled worlds that transit their skies & nothing is more empty than
god, if I only would have said…
LE Francis (she/her) is Sage Cigarettes Magazine’s managing editor. She’s a writer, podcaster, visual artist, & musician. She is a columnist & staff artist for Cream Scene Carnival Magazine. She is a co-host & editor of Sage Cigarettes’ A Ghost in the Magazine horror review podcast. Her debut poetry chapbook, This Spell of Song & Star, is available through Bottlecap Features. Find her at nocturnical.com.
