The Temple

of the God of Infinite Space

    for David Molz, perfumer
         Debra Riley Parr, design historian
            Jeffrey Skinner, poet

                               

There are two spaces we think we exist in

one not more sacred that world we live in 

one in our brain an entire universe

put your fingers on your temples find it

that world in your brain Greek myths will explain 

should you care to consider a box is a brain

in temples so holy all congregate

in awe of a finely carved wooden chest

never opened full of unnameables

circumscribed by wide band frequencies

in which a universe appears to expand

that box of all your temple’s treasures most 

dear that box as big as a mind’s clear eye

answering all you can pose asking why

                                         

      copyright © Dick Russell, 2015