Heaven is what we cannot reach:
The Apple on the tree, provided it do
Hopeless hang, that “Heaven” is to me!²
Heav’n bespangles with dishevelled Light—³
Heaven is the Cross-Beam
From which the sky hangs.⁴
God Storytells about Heaven:
How it Breathes, how it opens & closes.⁵
Only heaven can see the Sparrow’s back.⁶
Heaven is when there is no difference
Between watching and being watched—⁷
We have Souls in heaven too—
Double-Lived in regions new!⁸
Heaven’s net is Vast, and it is Loose,
Yet nothing slips through.⁹
She is Fit for heaven
Without tasting death!¹⁰
¹ Katharine Coles, Swoon
² Emily Dickinson, Heaven is What I Cannot Reach
³ Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
⁴ Chandogya-Upanishad 3.1.1
⁵ Cassidy Lewis, To Build a Mother Who Stands like a House
⁶ Bantu proverb
⁷ Rae Armantrout, Inner
⁸ John Keats, Ode on the Poets
⁹ Lao Tzu tr. Charles Muller, Tao Te Ching 73
¹⁰ Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Birthmark