essential as air
hot as solar flare
nuclear as fusion–
–your gaze
seeps elemental
power no container
can fully contain
–your lids
half-composing
half-eclipsing
lightning
& northern lights
—your eyes
guides in the Night
seismic currents
no quaking earth
withstands
–nor wants to…
Part moth,
part phoenix,
part Icarus,
Eye
impel
to their autumn fire.
©Karen Robiscoe
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