ZERO

ZERO

zero
was worth more
than a poem

no civilization I know
stood or fell
by a poem

but zero, gorgeous oval
that you are
you gave us infinity
opened space
and time

and terrible
singulaity that
just swallows swallows

zero
my best little beautiful
paradox of the absolutely
essential
number
that can never be

a whole Arrakis desert
in your history
sheer
possibility

quietly, quietly
zeroing inimagining the poem

that simply cannot be