The eternal universe shone, glistened
As exquisite diamonds embedded in divine necklace
While it embraced the moonlit splendid night
The treasurer sun lent shovels and spades
The contingent burrowed the diamonds in divine necklace
The necklace transmuted pale and frail
Solar troops toiled the void
Bouncing on and off, back and forth
The eternal universe shone, glistened
As exquisite diamonds embedded in divine necklace
As it embraced the cloudless brightest morning
The universe is wide awake..

Daybreak: a sleeve of wind’s voice,
Gentle ululations, then a smear of gold

There’s a shuddering of sequined water
Reflecting ice-veined crags still frozen
In distress.

A living lens snaps the moment
All the way to its vanishing point.
Then, long, slow sepals, slippery
As syllables of a foreign language,
Transmute to a giant bloom,
A silk-red reflection falling upward,
Tumbling over pink-sheep clouds
Interrupting the stillness
Of this blue-grey universe.