REVERSE CONSCIOUSNESS

by Nick Jaina

take off your head, darling
reverse your consciousness
you are lightning in a ship’s bottle
in a room where somebody’s playing chess
and the game passes by so breezily
it could easily end on any move
and a drop of condensation gathers
at the bottom of somebody’s Moscow Mule

so when you take off
from your burning city
reverse your consciousness
you are a tangent to a tangent
you are lucky to have been so blessed

© 2021 Nick Jaina