Ether

Something about this moment

when I slide under the covers 

and finally let everything go. 

Laying, completely unlaced,

embraced between gravity and bed. 

When I can drift out of my head and 

into my body, down my arms and legs, 

over the sheets, across the floor, 

up the walls, and 

out the chimney into the night sky, 

a space that more suitably facilitates my soul, 

expanding up into the heavens, 

where a million little strings of starlight
lift me up from the inside and 

hold me…

                 hanging, 

        dissipated, 

etherial.

Ether: noun

     a very rarefied and highly elastic substance formerly believed to permeate all space, including the interstices between the particles of matter, and to be the medium whose vibrations constituted light and other electromagnetic radiation.