Nobody knows the tight spaced wedge
I've wedged myself into…

I gasp for precious, abandoned air
like a fish that jumped out of the aquarium

propelled by desire,
the curiosity,
to discover what lies beyond…

Where I am alone and…
   …special,

secluded by dark,

   …the luminous dark.

My special friend.

Where I am superman,
and wonder woman
all rolled into one…

where I can hear a whisper whisper
that there's no going back...
like light sucked into a black hole,
like echoes absorbed into stone.

I ease back into stalagmites of pain
knowing I am free…
(and diseased)

glowing like the heat of night... 

immersed,

   ...in luminous dark.