#to float

meteorites 

dangled 

above my head like 

daggers 

suspended by fishing line, those

celestial lures singing

 for my hands 

and I

received a telescope in the mirror that would

take me just close enough but

when my hand slipped inside the box I

woke up and

searched the sheets for this telescope,

 I

searched the sea for those meteors,

never

looking up at the mirror above me, those

daggers and comets dangling, swinging reckless I

could not look up at the mirror.

I could not see the ashes from

every birthday candle scattered on my palms forming

a map in my lifeline like a palmistry read, a

trapdoor in my 

thumb nail, a second

world where the first one

feeds like a

tributary, 

and I

have no canoe but can just

Part one of short film project that explores how one finds freedom through reflection.

Directed | Cinematography | Editing: Terell Wheeler

Actors: Julian Abroleda Taylor Edson

Music: Ben Prunty benprunty.bandcamp.com/