Tidally locked untidy cube

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The face of cube

Flat on the floor,

It revolves and spins

Around me,

Nine orange freckles

Each time we lock eyes,

I go around too,

Slower and longer steps,

More than push and pull of

Other symmetrical bodies

Draw my orbit : untidy.

Sometimes I may see a glance

Of blue bruises neatly across your cells,

How earth says it has seen moon

In all its shapes and shades!

Eyes closed I see all colours painted

In outlines of boxes,

Red next to yellow in the same room,

Untouched,                             I pass,

Maybe earth does with eyes closed too,

Lingers at a perigee,       ponders,

Tries to tilt in vain,

'Maybe the crescent:    a handle

Of a bucket empty or drained ?'

While I wonder

On endless summer nights and

An untidy Rubik's moon.

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