Will Do. Poem by RIC BASTASA

the way things are going to be running smooth is to write without a comma or even a period which we hate most since it signals death
as comma signals sleep
or rest
the way we want things to be eternal to sound like a gust of air
passing by the tips of our hair
the way where we think we are going
into weightlessness
that subtlety of language perfecting itself into
nonspeaking

because a touch
or even a glimpse
or just a sigh

or the final closing of
our eyes

will do.