art installation, provincetown bathhouse

perhaps,
in the depths of my collapsing heart,
perhaps, an indivisible part of me -
trapped by its own infinitesimal day -
is watching a red cosmos quiver.

the heart then swells,
yet this speck of myself,
drowned as it is by these deluges,
sees all as flat clotted red,
blind to the roundness
of life inside an eternal breath.

D. Patrick