Stellar Sights and Alignments//White Noise in a Shadow Box

Galaxy Musings, Extremes of Light and Darkness

Stellar Sights and Alignments

Still singing in a chamber duet. The paralleling

extreme sides reflex and reposition back

into the original socket. With a pair of carefully

placed hemispheres, gray matter yearns to think

deeper, reason through this and decipher

foundations of the Brain storm.

It becomes green-lit, crossed off lists of everything

waiting to be complete. This is how we remember.

Watching ourselves take inventory.

Wondering how we wound up toiling

within rain-wrapped cyclones passing

over low-slung clouds while Neptune-blue

foam whisks over a refrigerated lake.

Thought blocks talk, like bursting satellite speakers.

A monologue, erasing the need for explanation

like deep craters peppering the moon.

With clarity charged like a battery,

adventure sets alight emoting

and soul-searching with frequent energy spikes.

We’ll stay awake all night watching

stellar parades create

rare sights of alignment.

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White Noise in a Shadow Box

Here is an example, a life-sized  Chessboard.

Here is a landing point, where giants climb down

from their secret space. Emerging from behind

a mass of grey clouds wearing their bold thunder-head hats.

Mammoth-sized boots knock over pawns, bishops, and rooks

leaving them as toppled pieces spreading over an expansive

checkered transparency. A walkway constructed from

glossy mirror panes. 

 Perception intersects with these lines

of this sawtooth world, like a series

of revolving doors. A forever moment

where extreme thought squares slant

at an awkward incline. They are the tilt-a-whirl

gradient shifts. An unstable carnival light pattern

with rickety creaks and unexpected chatter.

Time hands go on from this, skilled 

at perpetual movement. Blundering

and delaying, stowed within dark crevices 

of the black box.

Silence brings a tender reprieve.

The breaths—fluttering

like wax dribbling down

cylinder faces of the candle.

It sounds as gentle

as the pulse of white noise.

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