Poem: Crystal Ball

 

Crystal Ball

 

an upside-down imp stares back,

leans left for my right,

stretching into befuddled rainbows.

 

leans right for my left,

till auras split into ribs,

and circle round to live larger,

upped by factors of whatnot to ∞.

 

i dive in, immerse, in sync with the imp, 

vivid, such verve, so vivacious.

photons frolic and paragons flow.

a hypermath of hula hoops.

 transmogrification.

i skip to strum the chords of Saturn.

a tweed jacket turns to psychedelic ocean,

the ocean a bulbous aurora borealis.

 

this orb, it holds every coronet in the world,

adoring atop its stand of brass.

if light plays keen, the colors web:

paisleys whorl into jewels, and galaxies nova,

merging with hubbell dewdrops 

in a big-bang rendezvous. 

how the crystal blossoms,

born from spaceless specks.

cosmic, impossible, this language of comets--

only to collapse, fated once more 

to render the nothingness

beautiful.

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