"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