Antipodes

Light travels at 186,000 miles per second.
I envy the light that travels 186,000 miles per second;
every morning silently, effortlessly,
across such vast distances
it arrives to rest, no more than a finger's breadth,
in the bared dips between each of your vertebrae.

from How to Make a Million (Auckland: Godwit, Random House, 2002)