Heaven is the Cross-Beam
From which the Sky Hangs²
Heaven’s Net is Vast, and it is
Loose, yet Nothing Slips through³
Heaven is what we cannot Reach! –
The Apple on the tree, provided it do
Hopeless Hang, that “Heaven” is to me⁴
You are Fit for Heaven without tasting Death⁵
Heav’n Bespangles with Dishevelled Light⁶
Only Heaven can see the Sparrow’s Back⁷
Heaven is when there is No Difference
Between Watching & being Watched⁸
God Storytells about Heaven: how it
Breathes, how it Opens and Closes⁹
Ye have Souls in Heaven too –
Double-Lived in Regions New¹⁰
¹ Katharine Coles, Swoon
² Chandogya-Upanishad 3.1.1
³ Lao Tzu tr. Charles Muller, Tao Te Ching 73
⁴ Emily Dickinson, Heaven is What I Cannot Reach
⁵ Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Birthmark
⁶ Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
⁷ Bantu proverb
⁸ Rae Armantrout, Inner
⁹ Cassidy Lewis, To Build a Mother Who Stands like a House
¹⁰ John Keats, Ode on the Poets