To an Unknown Lover

Some Definitions
1. Fathom
OE fæthm: the outstretched arms
to embrace the depths of
to enfold as with the buoyancy of water
to sound, to penetrate
to touch with the eyes
to know
2. Fixed Star
fixed star: any of the stars which apparently always retain the same position with respect to one another
a stable relativity
a constancy as one shapes one's own orbit
to the distant eye, a clear shining
close up, a molten globe, a fieriness
a true star
a respect for equidistance
apparently always
3. Illusion
L. illudere: to sport with; illusio: deceit
the mirror offers an illusion of truth
to love the known
is to piece fragments
of a mirror together
so as to conjure the whole.
to love the unknown
is to make space for
the not-yet-born;
to open a door in the night
to the adversary.
the mirror offers the truth of illusion
4. Gold
…that which resists rust
gold grains in an hourglass
run their course,
lasting beyond death,
or till a word or thought
seeds the end—
that shimmering stream
stopped, the hand
which tries to restore it
breaks the vessel —
splinters of glass
and heart dust,
a jagged gleaming
5. Still
verb — to quiet (wind, waves, commotion, tumult, passion, pain etc.)
adj. — subdued or low in sound; hushed; "in the stille night'
noun — a distilling apparatus, consisting of a vessel in which the substance is heated and vaporized
what fusions of being
will brew from this heat
what alchemies of silence
be born from this
entering into,
this setting free