Boy Swallows Universe

by Trent Dalton

I see on the ceiling of this secret room and the spinning planets those stars surround and the dust of a million galaxies scattered across her bottom lip. I will remember this kiss through the big bang. I will remember the end through the beginning. And the phone stops ringing. Acknowledgements With them the seed of wisdom did I sow, And with my own hand labour’d it to grow: And this was all the harvest that I reap’d – ‘I came like water, and like wind I go’ Into this universe . . .