By Pavel Chichikov
Articulated stone, a polished wand with venom
Fifty pairs of legs scuffle in the leaves,
Animated toy or photons in array?
Bees collide and part, brains two pilots steering,
Crabapple in a courtyard, virginally red
Folds magenta crystals in mossy tourmaline
Narcissus leaning to an image of the Virgin
Tulip-yellow nectar serves an elfin celebration,
The garden is a crystal forty meters long
Who will turn and cut this glossy gem
Release the living insects frozen in the facets
Free the crystal lattice of the shining centipede?
(Click here to follow Pavel's ongoing epic poem “The Shoulder of the Sun.” You may visit Pavel's website at http://www.greyowlpress.com.)