by shaun lawton
deep inside the scarred heart a viper
strikes from where the wooly mammoths
of memory nest in turbulent germination
to reach a paroxysm of equilibrium
the whipping star's fulcrum
opens its incandescent kernel
to set alight the pilot furnace
deep within our abominable dream
while nothing remains as it's seen
even as the chimera stares back at us
from the ubiquitous mirror spanning
the works from vitreous matter to every pupil
awake in the maelstrom of this sanctuary
where our mirror neurons collide
across the habitat of the vacuum
under the hypnotic pedipalps
the spinnerets of reverie have woven
splicing together the panopticon
of our daily ordinary weather
stitched in tandem in a lightning storm
so lower your eyelids and rest
while you still can since after that
this gift we have been granted will
be replaced by the incessant tempest
