Crystalline (2025)

Crystalline (Heaven's Message)

         Imprisoned on wind,          
         filtered by cumulus,          
lofty, lilting crystalline
                   creatures prance.                    

 Parading tiny prisms flit 
in their bliss romance —
         float, twirl and fade before          
                   immaculate birth sends                    
Heaven's message
 to naked earth below. 

         Gentle air leave my lungs,          
so I might inhale their essence,
                   that sweet bounty from above,                    
 to take shelter on my eager tongue. 

Puffed white clumps
         to the naked eye belie          
                   intricate beauty deployed                    
and demolished by their union,
         laying into icy-white ground          
 amid kin in harmonic coalescence. 


                    

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