Evenly Us
By Allan Peterson

The brain has a sense of itself

the mind, and the mind

has a sense of itself, the soul

and the soul sees itself

in others as if a single being.

That's how we see it.

The owners having been briefed,

who present to each other

a resumé of dreams as credentials

and the bones in a jar named for us.

Us evenly, us symmetrical,

us with our charming illusions,

saying from the heart. your breathing

is mine, and meaning it.