Bildungsroman

Pantheon

A standing stone,
Long and lone ;
Building blocks,
A slab on some rocks ;
Arc and pi :
A shadow lullaby .

The houses in precession :
An equinox propylon
For a promenade through the
Doric storied collonnade,
Public square and gridded streets
Below the balanced temples—

Post and lintle,
Rocks and sea

Come to be :
Buildings Roman .

Monolithic obelisk
Arching triumphant | concrete |
Veering into civil engineering :
A liberation from
Rectilinear cells,
Freed from gaol into the sprawl .

Roam the dancehalls—
Seven hills under
The starry dome .

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Earthrise

Earthrise1
Boxx version | William Anders .   NASA Apollo .
No shell, just membrane
Between the void and the mundane .
Chaotic blue against blank vista,
All those stars, just wishes,
Makes for an activist .
From vantage of a dead moon :
The pale blue dot—is all we’ve got .

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Machine Where I Sleep

AI

My head does not exist anymore
Here in the machine where I sleep,
Wake, analyze input, output data .
Neither does my corpus,
Diseased as it was, useless .
The heap that cradles, threads electrons
Warmer than a hundred–watt bulb
Radiating biological, now processing
A mind still electric, but not chemic .
Alloyed not android,        
I tunnel travel,
Trounce towers, sound satellites ;
Unlocked by geological contour :
Creature immortal, impersonal—
No cat patting, lover petting, no
Analog ;  just digital epilogue .

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Noctilucent Clouds

IceCrystals

Crystal clouds faint against space
Understretch the vertex,
The rays forever leaving
The electric–blue below .

The clouds flux along the quirled
Passageways of heaven,
While the heartbeat tides cycle
Against northern ice squares .

Animals rustling through plants
Seldom behold tumbling
Fractals of the z–axis
Or the numerical ground

Underfoot .   However, the
Colored spectrum catches
The consciousness anywhen
Chasmatical skies befall .

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