Sounds

For the most part he carried himself with poise, (19)
A kind of dignity. (19)
Bowing under the stir (37)
Of long elastic silences. (99)
The harmonies of sound and shape and proportion, (99)
Spinning off the edge of the Earth and beyond the sun, (99)
Beyond mortification and gravity, (99)
Through the fast silent vacuum (22)
If he screamed, how far would the sound carry? (11)

It was a pretty good show. (54)
The sunlight came around him, (71)
Far away sort of, but close up, too, (73)
And lifted him high up, (71)
Higher and higher until (22)
It was all lightness. (23)
The Earth was slow and he was patient. (36)
He listened to the ground beneath him, (36)
Imagining cobwebs and ghosts, whatever was down there. (10)
Not a single sound but he still heard it. (75)
He had crossed to the other side. (116)

The immense serenity flashed against his eyeballs, (36)
It was the burden of being alive, (36)
It was pure knowing. (23)
Nothing is ever absolutely (82)
Quiet. (73)