As above so below & over & again Rhine maidens
swim below
the sky-nymphs
above playing along the burning rainbow bridge,
Until for one last time the jötnar cross Bifrost---
Odin losing his eye long before Ragnorok
Mjolnir thrusting through to
the center of the earth amidst bursts of cosmic rays;
Freya emerging, leading her sisters the Valkyrie;
every last one of them a Slav;
Island witches bewitching me transparently---
cycles of time repeating the old prophet's moan;
Euclid's Geometric spacetime
seen by Pythagoras in the sunlight
before the Martians came with their Wellsian pin-ups