Betsy Robin Schwartz

I swell uncontained

elation making flesh elastic.

I rise with helium

no pin-prick can threaten.

I generate illumination

soft warm incandescence and

concentrated spectral lasers.

I am ozone and light and fire's smoke;

full,

sated,

gaseous,

atmospheric.

I am intoxicated giddy woozy

with love built

brick by brick.