"I do not want to wax philosophical about so much 'useless' beauty scattered over the oceans - Nature is prodigal."  
- Karl von Frisch on diatoms, microscopic silica-shelled algae

                 a golden field of floating needles
 	 	                                                                                   fantails of teal & amber
                         halfway between Kandinsky 
                         & a hardware bin
                                                                                           the board brims 
                                                                                with sliced blue limes	        	 minnows huddle
                     nanopatterns on a manifold						                           forming a sun
                            holes & grooves 
                           intricately tooled 
                                                                            the functions of filigree 
						                                              of lyrical structures
										                                                           8-pack abs in 
                                                                                                                                        lavender 
    	                                                                    helices wind scarabs in a line
an iridescent third-eye triangle		
                                                                                              the advantages in extravagance
    	                                                                                                    bodies in kaleidoscopic sweep	
still frames with silica skin
capturing wavelengths 					                                    	psychedelic cosmonauts
heralding air									                                                  adrift in the dark
                                                                        rhythm & repetition 
                                                                          delicate filaments
                                                                        arranged in relation                 			
                                                                                                                   all the economies of beauty
				                                                                                            reaching for the ideal 
as feathers settle  							  
             in crimson slashes
                                                                           a motif of leaves
                                                                                      stacked to infinity
       				                                                                                            cemeteries deepen
 										                                                        in the sediment