Entirely New Revelation

The soul includes parts of the body.
We can no longer deny it.
If you look you can see
the strands that emerge from the darkness,
the umbilici attached to spiritual navels
at the centers, perhaps the holes at the bases of bellies,
perhaps detachable, the parts that cause
giggles and sighs.

What would the ineffable
do without vapors?
Since that very first
life was pumped into
that primordial mouth
through the lips of God,
the history of ghosts
has been written in exhales,
the marvelous noises
made by the release of gas.