this connection of everyone with lungs

“as everyone with lungs breathes the space between the hands and the space around the hands and the space of the room and the space of the building that surrounds the room and the space of the neighborhoods nearby and the space of the cities and the space of the regions and the space of the nations and the space of the continents and islands and the space of the oceans and the space of the troposphere and the space of the stratosphere and the space of the mesosphere in and out.

 

In this everything turning and small being breathed in and out by everyone with lungs during all the moments.

 

Then all of it entering in and out. …

 

How connected we are with everyone.

 

The space of everyone that has just been inside of everyone mixing inside of everyone with nitrogen and oxygen and water vapor … and suspended dust pores and bacteria mixing …

 

How lovely and how doomed this connection of everyone with lungs.”

 

By Juliana Spahr