Part of the universe has been found But only part!
but it is the light of dead stars
if it shall console you
and the light of our own dying sun
and it is the light of dark matter
along the edges of our time like the exhausted flesh of a single flower
though it could be "something else," normal and glowing
like your mother's voice
where you hoped to find another voice
and my father's name
which bore no middle initial
so he gave me a middle initial
so I would not write in time of war
No Middle Initial
Part of the universe has been found Only a part!

Do you take the part for the whole I asked you
and you said I take the part for the part
and the missing woman sang around the edges
We do not know what the body can do
and the painter said You will die
like a poisoned nude reaching for the telephone
And the longer the brightness lasts, the more massive the intervening dark
It is not our custom to pray in the direction of the Tower of Babel
And it's all ordinary, the stars, the stuff of love, and the dark found universe