Prism

The assignment was to fall in love.

The author was female.

The ego had to be called the soul.

The action took place in the body.

Stars represented everything else: dreams, the mind, etc.

The beloved was identified

with the self in a narcissistic projection.

The mind was a sub-plot. It went nattering on.

Time was experienced

less as narrative than ritual.

What was repeated had weight.

Certain endings were tragic, thus acceptable.

Everything else was failure.