The Earth In Rotation
Once, just once, I traveled
on a spinning, gyrating
amusement park ride
I traveled from a stable earth
to one that spun, dipped,
shuddered, and catapulted
me into a limbo where I
lost contact with the ground—
where my limbs became
appendages I no longer
recognized, where my insides
jiggled and lurched from side
to side, where my head
began to spin —slowly at first
and then began to quicken
At the end, unbuckled and released
my legs wobbled,
and the world still spun
