Give me thy Breath for I
Am faint with Common Air²
Breathe with Unconditional
Breath the Unconditioned Air³
Life is a place of Passing Breath⁴
We live Most Life – whoever breathes Most Air⁵
A Breathcrystal – your Unalterable Testimony⁶
We Breath – then Drop the Air⁷
All Beings merge into Breath
Alone, and from breath Arise⁸
I Teem with Chasms of Air⁹
Call us Scripters of Breath¹⁰
¹ C.D. Wright, Poster, Women’s Prison
² Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rappaccini’s Daughter
³ Wendell Berry, How To Be a Poet
⁴ Marian Paust, Report to Next of Kin
⁵ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Love
⁶ Paul Celan tr. Pierre Joris, Eroded
⁷ Emily Dickinson, One Year Ago
⁸ Chandogya-Upanishad 1.11.5 tr. Max Müller
⁹ Laura Hershey, Canyon
¹⁰ George Abraham, The Palestinian/Queer Specimen’s Index