Curiosity 81

By Don Meyerowitz

 

Glimmering iris rises non-thinkingly

Off the shimmering horizon’s rounded lines,

Simmering orisons, sown unblinkingly,

Chanted by borning faces outside of Time.

This world’s burning races muzzle pain

Like our own bloated kissers guzzle gas.

Small pond’s central impulse triples its ripples

Through which pass each micron’s multiplying mass.

Tsunami’s sea-personic of night’s black waves

Instantly sensed o’er shrugging rock-bottom plates,

Waves dismissed by drones indifferent to mass graves

Paved in the brimming past by hate-less fate.

Mother Ocean meets the searing lava lips

Of sea-men going down on the swells of her hips

 

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