"DEEP POCKET"
Jane Lecroy

4" x 4" book of 47 poems it fits in your pocket and makes your pocket deep.

Self Published © 1999

$8

SATURN
This life
is Saturn's night sky
littered with moons;
perhaps of the body
certainly captured by the body
but not out of decision.

All of the things that orbit us,
that fill our attentions,
are determined not by our consciousness,
(although we wish it that way
extending the meaning of free will
to free us from ourselves,
which it never can)
the particular gravity
we each possess comes from
factors determined by the random
chaotic nature of our universe.

We are not responsible
for the parameters we exist out of,
that define us
and separate us from each other.
Varied biologies
Singular interpretations
Particular experiences
lead us to the differences
that make us individuals.

We are ringed as the great jovian worlds are
as the insides of trees
as the cross section of any part of the Earth's crust
giving clues to past climates and events
storms, collisions, temperature changes, fires
age, size, formation

There is no scalpel for a life though
no core sample, telescope or diagram.
We are living.
Necessarily unconscious
but possessing consciousness
(the secret definition of time).
This life is the tool we are measuring with
making the tests and results and diagrams.
The very thing we are trying to measure
is the only tool we have to measure by.
Because of this, there are so many patterns.