City
I saw IT
set below
on a velvet night,
like a sweep of burning liquid-crystal shard, or
animated net:
A network
of stunning amber Star-barns:
Cages catching embers strewn
on a mighty waffle press
to make:
A galaxy in 2-D grid,
A micro-chip ablaze, or
An even odder image of the inner earth aglow
with row
and ray
of pinhole pierce,
(Through the mantle deep)
Light seeping upward from
some
vast neon smelter
blasting underneath.


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