Apprenticeship

Learn
how to carve light
with light

a coruscating dust 
falls upon the world 
and  solidifies
around the empty spaces,
around the hunger 
in things
 
and so I stare
until light becomes
the flesh of the world,
closer to things
than my flesh is to me

I stare 
to fill with light 
things that
are not only endless
but beginningless 
too.

I stare because 
I am a carver of light
and I am light too. 

Originally published in "Inky Needles"