Event horizon* splash
Each moment is a place you've never been. -Mark Strand
The moment of dissolution is white hot,
a split atom second, during which shadows
chase lit figures straight into the deep end
black hole of the swimming pool, leaving,
for a split atom second, the blue,
the peach, the burnt sienna, sky and water:
color without texture, absent all traces
of organism, fixed in acrylic—a dream
of what bubbles up for a split atom second
at the advent of chaos—and bursts.
We knew the world before this moment
when it was less than pure, that is, in flux,
that is, effective.
So never nevermind your mind.
As ever, another time-fated body,
another chemical cosmos, will instantly rise
as from your blue-lit black lagoon,
break the surface,
and drown us again.
*In astrophysics, an event horizon is a boundary beyond which events cannot affect an observer, eg. the boundary of a black hole. -Wikipedia
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“Sienna” and “acrylic” are great words!
Wow!