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.)
all this useless beauty... but what the hell, why not?