05-14-2017, 05:12 AM
Good poem... especially the visuals of gradually increasing stanzas.
Rocks look roundish, but down close they're a whole bunch of geometric crystals.
I think the disyllabic meter echos the symmetry of the crystals; and it fits the words to the dancing.
For us, death depends on time; for rocks, death depends on size! Just love this idea.
Ray
P.S. If the rock were made of quartz, you'd need to be able to resolve down to about 5 angstroms
using x-ray crystallography to "see" it. Luckily, seeing the sparkling can be done with the unaided eye;
and feeling... well, just grab the thing.
(The dancing, and other of the qualities, can also be detected using the science of psychotropics.)
Rocks look roundish, but down close they're a whole bunch of geometric crystals.
I think the disyllabic meter echos the symmetry of the crystals; and it fits the words to the dancing.
For us, death depends on time; for rocks, death depends on size! Just love this idea.
Ray
P.S. If the rock were made of quartz, you'd need to be able to resolve down to about 5 angstroms
using x-ray crystallography to "see" it. Luckily, seeing the sparkling can be done with the unaided eye;
and feeling... well, just grab the thing.
(The dancing, and other of the qualities, can also be detected using the science of psychotropics.)
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions