Before the Sound

Annihilation of proportions,
zero before the count,
silence before the sound,
point before the line.

Where we come,
where we return,
a place without measure,
without weight,
without edge.

Here nothing becomes everything.
Here every division dissolves.
Here all endings gather
into the first breath,
into the last.

Orbit from zero to zero,
orbit around the zero.
Orbit from zero to zero,
orbit around the zero.

The seesaw of
centrifugal, centripetal,
pendulum swinging
between beginning and end.
Electrons spiraling
around the atom’s secret heart.

All life returning
to the silent point,
the aught,
the nought,
that holds it whole.

All life returning
all life returning,
to the silent point.