Pansies (Lawrence)/Underneath—

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UNDERNEATH———
Below what we think we arewe are something else,we are almost anything.
Below the grass and treesand streets and houses and even seasis rock; and below the rock, the rockis we know not what,the hot wild core of the earth, heavier than we can even imagine.
Pivotal core of the soul, heavier than ironso ponderously central;heavier and hotter than anything known; ​and also alone.—And yetreeling with connectionspinning with the heaviness of balanceand flowing invisibly, gaspingtowards the breathing stars and the central of all sunninesses.
The earth leans its weight on the sun, and the sun on the sun of suns.Back and forth goes the balance and the electric breath.
The soul of man also leans in the unconscious inclination we call religiontowards the sun of suns, and back and forth goes the breathof incipient energetic life.
Out of the soul's middle to the middle-most sun, way-off, or in every atom.

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