What presubstantial somethings
whirl and race--
Arraying veil-like latent energies
Of vacuous darks in mind's unbounded space!
How dreamings gleam--expand like galaxies!
Do stars implode? Oblivial black holes
Of doubt ensnare the whirling spheres of thought:
Belief-qualm, fancy-fact--opposing poles--
Discharge, in lightning arcs, to naught.
Great nova--endless quanta, time and mass
Bring streaming, swirling bodies: blazing stars
Of puzzle substance (Lucid? Valid? Crass?)
With concepts orbiting, like Earth or Mars.
Quark, atom, cosmos.... From our earthly globe,
What congeries of wonderments to probe!
CODA:
Where cogent sense and witless wish collide,
Will astromantic idiocies abide?
(C) May 1996 Charles L.
Prazak