Heterotopia

coordinates
across mirror line,
obverse 

beautiful  thought,
geographic.

spiny baby artichokes,
carciofi,
soften in purple waters
of reflection,

a separate place of otherness,
neither here nor there.

purple and green

third space
layered to bearded choke,
eyes in a spiral storm
a world within world, 
place within a place.

colored induction

lines

the creative synthesis of opposites
-life’s apex
softening. 

true Monterey solitude

choked society

lines blur in heterotopia,
juxtaposed
on temporal axis, 

persistent hexagonal
storm on Saturn
opposite polar vortex.
stare down the mirror line
watched pot boiling,

patient time
in permanent acme,
stuck in the McCollough effect,
an epoch above space.

globed thistle heart becomes tender and sweet,
as a moment in another place. flowering.