Notes: the human skull has 29 bones; Saturn’s orbit around the sun takes 29 years; Twentynine Palms is a city in CA known for dark night skies ideal for stargazing, and serves as a gateway to the Joshua Tree National Park.
TWENTY-NINE
all the bones in my skull
are straining, stretching,
my head so full of thoughts
swirling around it’s hard
to gather them, calm them down,
form them into a coherent ring
around my mottled saturn self.
I need a little get-away
for my taciturn mental health,
some time under the joshua tree
staring up at dark night skies
over twentynine palms to find
the threatening fear unfounded
when resized to sane proportion:
how small I am and how surrounded.