Poem: Crystal Ball

 

Crystal Ball

 

an upside-down imp stares back,

leans left for my right, right for my left,

stretching through bedeviled rainbows--

till auras slip into caverns of ribs,

and circle round to live larger still,

upped by factors from whatnot to ∞.

 

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

vivid among photons frolicking 

through paragons of lively flow--

some hypermath of hula hoops, 

some transmogrification of chords, 

which strum the rings of saturn.

all of it curving about a coat peg 

whose psychedelic ocean of tweed

brims bulbous with aurora borealis.

 

this glossy flossy orb ... 

nestled within every coronet in the world,

how it adores its stand of brass,

even more when sunlight plays keen, 

divergent gold spun into webs:

paisley and jewel, galaxy and nova--

a jamboree for hubbell-dewdrops, 

emergent and effulgent, 

big-bang rendezvous. 

this crystal ball ...

how it blossoms!

a fantasia of spaceless cosmic specks,

revel of unpredictable comets.

and only then, after and yet before,

does it bend to collapse, 

a disappearance into its own splendor, 

fated to render the nothingness 

beautiful.

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7/23/26 ... 

7/26... if I ever get this right, it will be some kind of culmination of craft... 

6/26 ... if this ever turns out to be good, don't call me smart...

9/30/25 rolling the boulder up and down, up and down...

9/29/25... sisyphian monstrosity ... 

8/23/25 .. eds .. hellish poem to work with

10/5/24 eds