Softer light that takes added heat to get home:
this is a person and other people.
this person
these other people
or just all the people
altogether
slightly short
slightly narrow
in the light –
because
person
people
all people
are
slightly short
and slightly narrow
of the Light
are but softer lights within all the adding up
to Light;
of all the persons being people
having and sending light
there is not even a single person –
a person and their body
people in the body –
as star-scarred
as the distant suns,
and of all the persons being people
knowing and receiving the light –
a populated body
a body populator –
there is really not anybody
as well-rounded as those bodies
whose intentions
will fully originate
at their own axis
though, often enough
as often as often is possible
without all-ways taking up the time-work of always
are people to be found
mid-constellation
having a collapse
folding in on themselves,
so dark, compact
colourlessly voided as
any solarisation
at the tail end of its fire…
and still, often enough
as often as often is possible
without always taking over the space-work of all-ways
are people to be seen
closed-atmosphere
orbiting one another
gravitating so near, tight
in multiplication
of risk upon risk
of collision,
apocalyptically full
of meteoric desire…
indeed
the people
despite literal and lateral shortcomings
and an almost literary narrow-mindedness
lights always less than Light
stars not as poised as the Sun
planetary but lacking in the self-composed
are yet to be able
to find and see themselves
more successfully distinguished than this,
…will yet be able to distinguish themselves from the fuller bodies
…bodies of enviable mass
…a little more successfully
this person and these people
may find and see good distinction
when recalling silver-line
their own queer ability
demonstrated time and again (and this is exactly the point)
to do such surprising things as
relight
after
burning out
whether that be by shared heat
or random combustion
and recompose
after
impact
whether so by organic reproduction
or a many-handed
tool-box
prostheticisation,
truly
here
the person in the people
the people in the person
or just all the people
distinguish themselves
surprise
as bodies
not massive
nor fully lit
nor very stable
but in a body instead souled by Repetition;
and furthermore this and these yet find and see themselves in distinction
good distinction – surprising
by a similarity with each mass that each mass cannot have with the other
the people resemble both stars and planets in ways that stars and planets simply cannot resemble each other
the earth cannot collapse
or burn out
the sun cannot crash
or make contact
truthfully
here
the person in the people
the people in the person
or just all the people
distinguish themselves
surprise
as bodies
again, not massive
nor all-light
nor elemental
but in a body instead souled by Resemblance;
the people
a distinguished soul of light within Light
an embodiment unmatched by bodies that wait wasting the same until expiration
bodies circumscribed by forces
on legs without imagination
this person and these people, instead
by short-falling and narrow-eyedness
can find and see themselves
using and reusing
and – by accident of that difference – refusing
everything
in so many ways that never will it be so massively exhausted
before their own softer light has been divided into oblivion –
until their bodies phosphorescent are no longer adding heat to one another –
which is to say, finally, and yet most primordially,
this person
these people
in a body souled by Emergence.