Point of Order We’ve pulled a thousand million G’s escaping from the hearts of stars. Each life’s filled with infinities. We’ve slipped a hundred prison bars, outrun a dozen packs of hounds, survived ten deaths, and bear the scars. We trespassed on forbidden grounds the gods had posted clear enough. Our intrepidity astounds. We learned to deal and bet and bluff and hide the wild card in our sleeve from who but Nature, who plays rough. The wonder is that we believe belief belongs to us alone when faith runs through all stems that leave: a faith that granted life on loan there’s light to spin and shade to weave. The greenest grave is gravity’s. Each life’s filled with infinities.
Dan Campion is the author of Peter De Vries and Surrealism and co-editor of Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song, a third edition of which was issued in 2019. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, Rolling Stone, and many other magazines. A selection of his poems titled The Mirror Test will be published by MadHat Press in 2022. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
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